What you need to know about Queen Tetisheri

 

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.