Naparaye 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. . . .
Naparaye was the daughter of King Piye and the sister-wife of King Taharqa.
She held several titles: Great of Grace (wrt im3t), Great of Praises (wrt hzwt), Sweet of Love (bnrt mrwt), (Great?) King's Wife (hmt niswt (wrt?)), Lady of the Two Lands (hnwt t3wy), and King's Sister (snt niswt).Grajetski, Wolfram. (2005) Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary Golden House Publications. p. 88. .
Naparaye's name is known from her tomb in el-Kurru (Ku. 3). At her pyramid an alabaster offering table was found (Khartoum, No. 191).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. .
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