Atakhebasken (Akhetbasaken) was a Nubian queen dated to the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt.Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 2004, pp. 234-240. . . . She was the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Taharqa.
Burial Atakhebasken is mainly known from her tomb in Nuri (Nu. 36). The finds from the tomb include: a shawabti, canopic jars, which are now in Boston, and an altar now in the Meroe Museum in Khartoum.Dows Dunham and M. F. Laming Macadam, Names and Relationships of the Royal Family of Napata, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 35 (Dec., 1949), pp. 139-149. . Her tomb was enlarged after the chapel had already been built.Derek A. Welsby, The Kingdom of Kush: the Napatan and Meroitic Empires, Markus Wiener Publishers, 1998, p. 108. .
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