Iset
Egyptian · scion · new kingdom · Recorded classification
Scion daughter of Ramesses VI by Queen Nubkhesbed; sister of Ramesses VII. The first holder, since the early 18th Dynasty, of the revived offices of God's Wife of Amun and Divine Adoratrice of Amun, installed at Thebes by her father — and probably the first to hold the office celibate. Attested on the Koptos stela (Manchester Museum 1781).
Parentage
- father: Ramesses VIKoptos stela (Manchester Museum 1781) (primary)
- mother: NubkhesbedKoptos stela (Manchester Museum 1781) (primary)
Domains
- amun cult office
Relations
- father: Ramesses VIKoptos stela (Manchester Museum 1781) (primary)
- mother: NubkhesbedKoptos stela (Manchester Museum 1781) (primary)
- sibling: Ramesses VIIKoptos stela (Manchester Museum 1781) (primary)
Sources
- existence: Koptos stela of the God's Wife Iset (Manchester Museum 1781; excavated by Petrie at Koptos) (primary)
- office-of-Gods-Wife-of-Amun: Koptos stela (Manchester Museum 1781); G. Robins, Women in Ancient Egypt (1993) on the revived office (primary)