Mother of king Den (First Dynasty). She has her own tomb in the kings' cemetery of Abydos, and is mentioned on a necropolis seal listing rulers from Narmer to Den; this evidence indicates that she may have ruled for some years as queen regent.

Attestations:

• Tomb Y and funerary enclosure in Abydos
• Inscriptions from tomb 3471 in Saqqara

Bibliography:

• Petrie 1925a: 18-19 (list of sources then known: at that stage it was not clear whether the name was that of a king or a queen regent)
• Emery 1961: 65-69
  
• Wilkinson 1999: 74-75

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