Editing Nefertari (section)

== Monuments==

===Abu Simbel, great temple===
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[[File:Abu-Simbel temple2.jpg|thumb|upright|Nefertari beside a colossus of [[Ramesses&nbsp;II]]]]
Nefertari appears twice as one of the royal women represented beside the colossal statues of [[Ramesses&nbsp;II]] that stand before the temple. To the left of the doorway, Nefertari, Queen-Mother [[Tuya (queen)|Tuya]] and the king's son [[Amun-her-khepeshef]] (still called Amunhirwenemef here) flank the colossal statue of the king. To the right of the doorway Nefertari, Baketmut and the king's son [[Ramesses (prince)|Ramesses]] are shown with the [[Pharaoh]].<ref name="TyldesleyQueens"/>

Inside the temple Nefertari is depicted on one of the pillars in the great pillared hall worshipping [[Hathor]] of Ibshek.<ref name="KitchenRI-2"/>

On the wall of the inner pillared hall Nefertari appears behind Ramesses&nbsp;II. They stand before the barque of [[Amun]], and Nefertari is shown playing the sistra. Elsewhere Nefertari and Ramesses&nbsp;II are shown before a barque dedicated to a deified Ramesses&nbsp;II. Nefertari is shown twice accompanying her husband in Triumph scenes.<ref name="KitchenRI-2"/>

===Abu Simbel, small temple===
[[Image:S F-E-CAMERON EGYPT 2005 APR 00354.JPG|thumb|left|upright|Temple of Nefertari at Abu Simbel]]

The small temple at Abu Simbel was dedicated to Nefertari and [[Hathor]] of Ibshek. The dedication text on one of the buttresses states:
: "A temple of great and Mighty monuments, for the Great Royal Wife Nefertari Meryetmut, for whose sake the (very) sun does shine, given life and beloved" (Kitchen).<ref name="KitchenRI-2"/>
While on other buttresses it says:
: "King of South and North Egypt, Usermaatre Setepenre; he has made a Temple by excavation in the mountain, of eternal work(manship) in Nubia, which the King of South and North Egypt, Usermaatre Setepenre has made for the Great Royal Wife Nefertari Meryetmut, in Nubia, like Re forever and ever" (Kitchen).<ref name="KitchenRI-2"/>

The two colossal standing statues of Nefertari in front of the small temple are equal in size to those of Ramesses&nbsp;II. Nefertari is shown holding a sistrum. She wears a long sheet dress and she is depicted with a long wig, Hathoric cow horns, the solar disk, and tall feathers mounted on a [[modius (headdress)|modius]].<ref name="TyldesleyQueens"/>

In the interior of the temple, Nefertari appears in a variety of scenes. She is shown for instance offering to a cow (Hathor) in a papyrus thicket, offering before [[Khnum]], [[Satet|Satis]], and [[Anuket]], the triad of [[Elephantine]], and offering to [[Mut]] and [[Hathor]].<ref name="KitchenRI-2"/>
[[Image:Ankh isis nefertari.jpg|thumb|upright|The goddess [[Hathor]] giving an [[ankh]], representing "life", to Nefertari]]

=== Tomb 66 in the Valley of the Queens===
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The tomb of Nefertari, [[QV66]] is one of the largest in the [[Valley of the Queens]]. It is 520 square meters, and covered with pictures of Nefertari. Her husband, the pharaoh, is not represented in any of the pictures. Nefertari can be seen wearing Greek silver earrings with a [[labrys]] design in one of the portraits. These would have been sent to her as a gift for diplomatic reasons.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kelder |first1=Jorrit M. |title=Royal Gift Exchange between Mycenae and Egypt: Olives as "Greeting Gifts" in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean |journal=American Journal of Archaeology |date=2009 |volume=113 |issue=3 |pages=339–352 |doi=10.3764/aja.113.3.339 |jstor=20627592 |s2cid=163562384 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20627592 |issn=0002-9114}}</ref> The tomb was robbed in antiquity. In 1904 it was rediscovered and excavated by [[Ernesto Schiaparelli]].<ref name="TyldesleyQueens"/> Several items from the tomb that were overlooked by the tomb robbers, including parts of gold bracelets, shabti figures and a small piece of an earring or pendant are now in the [[Boston Museum of Fine Arts]]. Additional shabti figures are in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.<ref name="KitchenRI-2"/>

It was reported that a pair of mummified legs found in QV66 and now at the [[Museo Egizio]] of [[Turin]] may indeed be Nefertari's based on the bone structure and the age of the person, which fits the profile of Nefertari.<ref>{{Cite journal|title=Queen Nefertari, the Royal Spouse of Pharaoh Ramses II: A Multidisciplinary Investigation of the Mummified Remains Found in Her Tomb (QV66)|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=11|issue=11|pages=e0166571|date=November 30, 2016|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0166571|pmid=27902731|last1=Habicht|first1=Michael E.|last2=Bianucci|first2=Raffaella|last3=Buckley|first3=Stephen A.|last4=Fletcher|first4=Joann|last5=Bouwman|first5=Abigail S.|last6=Öhrström|first6=Lena M.|last7=Seiler|first7=Roger|last8=Galassi|first8=Francesco M.|last9=Hajdas|first9=Irka|last10=Vassilika|first10=Eleni|last11=Böni|first11=Thomas|last12=Henneberg|first12=Maciej|last13=Rühli|first13=Frank J.|pmc=5130223|bibcode=2016PLoSO..1166571H |doi-access=free}}</ref>