Sobekneferu is the first known female ruler of Egypt, although Nitocris may have ruled in the Sixth Dynasty, and there are five other women who are believed to have ruled as early as the First Dynasty.

Nitocris () has been claimed to have been the last pharaoh of the Sixth Dynasty.

Knittel speculates that the origin of the Cinderella fairy tale lies in the marriage of Nitocris, who lost her golden sandal only to have it later found by the pharaoh.

The office continued in existence until 525 BC under Nitocris ' successor, Ankhnesneferibre, when the Persians overthrew Egypt's last Saite ruler, Psamtik III ( 526 – 525 BC ), and enslaved his daughter.

A woman becoming pharaoh was rare, however ; only Sobekneferu, Neferneferuaten, Cleopatra VII and possibly Khentkaus I and Nitocris preceded her in known records as ruling solely in their own name.

It is then believed that he was in turn succeeded by the obscure pharaoh Neitiqerty Siptah, though according to popular tradition ( as recorded by Manetho two millennia later ) he was succeeded by Queen Nitocris, who would be the first female ruler of Egypt.

It is now generally recognized that the name " Nitocris " was conflated with that of a male pharaoh named Neitiqerty Siptah instead.

Later during the twenty-sixth dynasty, the Saite king Psamtik I would forcibly reunite Egypt in March 656 BC under his rule and compel the God's Wife of Amun serving at the time, Shepenupet II, daughter of Piye, to adopt his daughter Nitocris as her chosen successor to this position.

She was the daughter of the Saite Period twenty-sixth dynasty Egyptian king Psamtik I. Psamtik I dispatched a powerful naval fleet in March 656 BC to Thebes and compelled the serving God's Wife of Amun Shepenupet II, a daughter of Piye to adopt his daughter Nitocris I as her heir to this office in the well known Adoption Stela.

" A year later, his short story " The Vengeance of Nitocris " was published in the August 1928 issue of the magazine Weird Tales.

* 2181 BC: Egypt: Pharaoh Nitocris died.

There are conflicting accounts of Nitocris of Babylon either being his wife or daughter.

Herodotus says that the mother of the younger Labynetos was the queen Nitocris whom he portrays as the dominant ruler.

Josephus refers to the queen at the time ( corresponding to the Nitocris of Herodotus ) as the grandmother of Belshazzar which corroborates the alternative view that the younger " Labynetos " ( son of Nitocris ) is Nabonidus.

Psamtik reunified Egypt in his 9th regnal year when he dispatched a powerful naval fleet in March 656 BC to Thebes and compelled the existing God's Wife of Amun at Thebes, Shepenupet II to adopt his daughter Nitocris I as her Heiress in the so-called Adoption Stela.

Nitocris would hold her office for 70 years from 656 BC until her death in 586 BC.

Psamtik and Mehtenweshket were the parents of Necho II, Merneith, and the Divine Adoratice Nitocris I.

* Nikotris, Ramses ' mother: historic Queen Nitocris ; or perhaps the identically named daughter, Nitocris, of the Twenty-sixth Dynasty king Psamtik I.

Manetho was most likely confused by the similarity of the names Menkaura ( the prenomen or " throne name " of Nitocris ) and Menkaure.

Nitocris is not mentioned, however, in any native Egyptian inscriptions and " she " probably did not exist.

* The Queen's Enemies, a play by Lord Dunsany, is based upon Herodotus ' account of Nitocris ' murderous activities.

* Nitocris is mentioned in two stories by H. P. Lovecraft, " The Outsider " and " Imprisoned with the Pharaohs ".

* Tennessee Williams ' first published work is the 1928 short story " The Vengeance of Nitocris ", detailing the queen's careful plan for revenge.

* Nitocris La Dame de Memphis is a book by Pierre Montlaur.

* " The Mirror of Nitocris ," a short story by Brian Lumley, features a mirror that once belonged to Nitocris which unleashes evil forces upon its owners.

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