God's Wife of Amun
God's Wife of Amun (Egyptian: ḥm.t nṯr n ỉmn) was the highest-ranking priestess of the Amun cult, an important religious institution in ancient Egypt. The cult was centered in Thebes in Upper Egypt during the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth dynasties (circa 740–525 BC). The office had political importance as well as religious, since the two were closely related in ancient Egypt.
ḥm.t nṯr n ỉmn Hemetnetjer-en-Amun in hieroglyphs | ||||||
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Era: 3rd Intermediate Period (1069–664 BC) | ||||||
Although the title is first attested in the Middle Kingdom, its full political potential was not realized until the advent of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
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