Maat Hornefrure

Maat Hornefrure was a royal woman of the Nineteenth Dynasty. She  was  potential  the  daughter  of  the  Hittite  ruler  Hattusilis III and  Queen Pedukhipa. Maat Hornefrure  was the fit of Ramesses II (1290-1224 B.C.E.), having united him as part of the alignment between Egypt and the Hittites  in  some  the  34th  year  of  his  rule. Ramesses II sent a great progress, accepting troops, to welcome  Maat Hornefrure  to  Egypt  and  prayed  to  the god  Sutekh for  fair  weather. A series  of  responses  and fetes celebrated her safe arrival. She gone the rating queen, or Great Wife, in time and then withdrew to Miwer in the Faiyum. A list of her personal property was got at this hareem retreat. Her arrival was too recorded at  Abu Simbel. It  is  liable  that  Maat Hornefrure  was the stirring for the Egyptian tale taken in the bentresh stela. That romantic account looked soon after her arrival on the Nile.

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