Mekhtemweskhet I

Mekhtemweskhet I was a royal woman of the Twenty-first Dynasty. She was the wife of Shoshenq, a Libyan military commandant  at  Bubastis, and  the  mother  of  Osochor (984-978  B.C.E.),  Siamun (978-959  B.C.E.), and Shoshenq I (945-924 B.C.E.). She also had other son, Nimlot.  Mekhtemweskhet  was a Libyan noblewoman, a member of the strong class of the Meshwesh, the Libyan ranking clan.

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