دراسة حول سيدات هوارة فى مصر القديمة

Abstract EN

There is no doubt that women played a multitude of roles hi the Ancient Egyptian civilization: as gods, queens, workers, and house holders.

The women of Hawara, iu particular, had an important role in the Egyptian civilization.

Perhaps, the most outstanding example was Queen Sobck -Ncfcrou, who ruled Egypt for three years, four months and twenty days.

She completed the funerary temple of King Amenemhat in, and his daughter, Princess Neferou- Path, whose necropolis was found in 1956 with all the contents of the funerary furniture.

There arc also many of the goddesses, which characterized the Hawara area in Ancient Egypt down to to the Grcco-Roman time, such as Isis, Nut, Hathor, Taort, Nekhbet, Neit, Selket, Maat, Ouadjet and Nephtbys, etc.

Having been found in Hawara, the women's participation in such monuments is represented by either funerary furniture or tools of every day’s life.

The research aims to study the sccncs and the monuments, which refer to both ladies of the royal family or the goddesses of Ancicnt Egypt in the Hawara area.

It further highlights their relics at the Egyptian Museum.