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| Nitocris |
The great historian, Herodotus, listed her and related a fiction concerning her activities.
Nitocris reportedly referred power after her brother,
Merenre II ( 2152 B.C.E.), was slain. In vengeance she supposedly invited hundreds of officials she thought responsible for her brothers death to a banquet in a black chamber and then flooded it. She had a one-year dominate and was listed in the turin canon. Nitocris was the royal match of King Merenr II.
