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|name         = Sitre
|title        = [[Great Royal Wife]]
|image        = Drawing Sitre Petrie.png
|alt          = Drawing of Sitre, from her Theban tomb QV38.
|caption      = Drawing of Sitre, from her Theban tomb QV38.
|burial_place = QV38, [[Valley of the Queens]]
|spouse       = [[Ramesses I]]
|issue        = [[Seti I]]
|dynasty      = [[Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt|19th Dynasty]]
}}
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'''Sitre''' ("Daughter of Re") or '''Tia-Sitre''', was the [[Great Royal Wife]] of [[Pharaoh]] [[Ramesses I]] of [[Egypt]] and mother of [[Seti I]].<ref>[[Peter A. Clayton|Clayton, Peter]], ''Chronicle of the Pharaohs'', Thames & Hudson Ltd, (1994), p. 141. {{ISBN|0500050740}}.</ref>

==Biography==
There is some debate around the identity of Ramesses' wife and Seti's mother. Sitre is shown together with Ramesses I and Seti in Seti's [[Abydos, Egypt|Abydos]] temple where she is called the King's Mother.<ref name="DN">Demas, Martha, and Neville Agnew, eds. (2012). ''Valley of the Queens Assessment Report'' '''1'''. Los Angeles, CA: Getty Conservation Institute. [https://www.getty.edu/conservation/publications_resources/pdf_publications/valley_queens.html Getty Conservation Institute, link to article].</ref> She is called the King's Great Wife both in Seti's temple and in Seti's tomb (where one would expect her to be mentioned as King's Mother). However, Sitre's tomb, which can stylistically be dated to this period, mentions its owner as a King's Mother.<ref name="DH">[[Aidan Dodson|Dodson, Aidan]] & Dyan Hilton, ''The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt'', Thames & Hudson (2004), p. 175. {{ISBN|0500288577}}.</ref>

The [[Year 400 Stela]], found in [[Tanis]] and dated to the reign of Sitre's grandson [[Ramesses II]] describes Seti as the son of Paramessu (the name of Ramesses I before he became pharaoh) and Tia. Also, Seti's daughter was named [[Tia (princess)|Tia]]. It can be assumed that Tia and Sitre are the same person and that she altered her name when her husband became pharaoh, just like he changed his name from Paramessu to Ramesses. The fact that one of the daughters of Ramesses II was named Tia-Sitre makes it even more likely.<ref name="DH"/>

The absence of the title ''King's Daughter'' for her indicates that Sitre was of non-royal descent.<ref>''[[:fr:Référence:Nos ancêtres de l'Antiquité (Christian Settipani)|Nos ancêtres de l'Antiquité]]'', (1991), [[Christian Settipani]], p. 176.</ref> She did hold a large number of titles. She was a Hereditary Princess ([[iry-pat|iryt-p`t]]), a Great King’s Mother (mwt-niswt-wrt), also described as a God’s Mother (mwt-ntr). Her queenly titles included Lady of The [[Two Lands]] (nbt-t3wy), King’s Wife (hmt-nisw), Great King’s Wife, his beloved (hmt-niswt-wrt meryt.f) and Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt (hnwt-Shm’w-mhw). She also held the title of God’s Wife (hmt-ntr).<ref>[[Wolfram Grajetzki|Grajetzki, W.]]: ''Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary''. Golden House Publications (2005). {{ISBN|0954721896}}.</ref>

==Tomb QV38==
[[File:Schiaparelli's excavations - Theban region, Valley of the Queens, QV 38, Tomb of Sitre, 1903-1905, photo 1 of 1 - Archivio fotografico Museo Egizio, Turin C01894.jpg|thumb|left|Unfinished decoration for the QV38 tomb of Sitre, 1903-1905 photograph]]
She was buried in a tomb in the [[Valley of the Queens]] QV38. The tomb was already described by [[Karl Richard Lepsius]] (tomb 13) and [[John Gardner Wilkinson]] (tomb 19) The tomb may have been commissioned by her son [[Seti I]]. This would be the reason she is called a King's mother in her tomb.<ref name="DN"/> The decoration was unfinished, consisting of just line drawings.

In [[Bertha Porter|Porter]] and [[Rosalind Moss|Moss]] a description is given of the scenes outlined in the tomb. The decorations include images of [[Imsety]], [[Duamutef]], [[Anubis]], [[Maat]], Ir-renef-djesef, [[Nephthys]], [[Serket]], a monkey and two baboons in kiosk. Queen Sitre is further shown seated before a [[Naos (hieroglyph)|naos]]. Another scene shows a Lion-headed god, followed by Maat.  Further scenes include a kiosk containing a cat-headed god and Anubis, [[Hapi (Son of Horus)|Hapi]], [[Qebehsenuef]], [[Horus]]-Irbakef, [[Thoth]], [[Isis]], [[Neith]], Horus, and a kiosk containing [[Mut]] as vulture, a bird-headed god, and full-face god. Two boats are shown, with three gods below.<ref name="PM">[[Bertha Porter|Porter, Bertha]] and [[Rosalind Moss|Moss, Rosalind]], ''Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings'' Volume I: The Theban Necropolis, Part 2. Royal Tombs and Smaller Cemeteries, Griffith Institute. (1964), p. 751.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[https://thebanmappingproject.com/tombs/qv-38-queen-satra Theban Mapping Project] – Plan of the tomb and other details.

{{Queens of Ancient Egypt}}

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[[Category:Queens consort of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt]]
[[Category:Ramesses I]]