On the occasion of the International Women’s Day , Egypt Today will present the story of Queen Tetisheri, from Dynasty 17.
Queen Tetisheri was the wife of king Seqenenre Tao I, and became co-regent with her son Seqenenre Tao II after her husband’s death.
Tetisheri had a long life and witnessed her family fight for liberation against the Hyksos in the north of Egypt.
Her grandson, king Ahmose I, dedicated a stela in her memory and wrote “the mother of my mother and the mother of my father,…My majesty has wished to make for her a pyramid and chapel in the sacred land close to the monument of his majesty”
This statue shows the queen seated with a vulture wig headdress and a white dress.
Source: Egypt Today Magazine