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Sithathoriunet

19th century BCE · 19th century BCE

Sithathoriunet was an Egyptian princess of the Twelfth Dynasty, probably a daughter of Senusret II, buried near his pyramid at el-Lahun. Her tomb, excavated by Flinders Petrie and Guy Brunton in 1914, contained a treasure of jewellery, including a gold pectoral bearing the name of Senusret II, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and a crown now in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo.

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APA: The Epoch Institute. (2026). Sithathoriunet. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sithathoriunet
MLA: “Sithathoriunet.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia, The Epoch Institute, 2026, https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sithathoriunet. Accessed .
Chicago: The Epoch Institute. “Sithathoriunet.” The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. 2026. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sithathoriunet.
Harvard: The Epoch Institute (2026) ‘Sithathoriunet’, The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. Available at: https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/sithathoriunet (Accessed: ).

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