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TIL the Boston Museum of Fine Art has a fragment of an egyptian ivory box that has the name of the woman called benerib, the queen consort of first dynasty pharaoh hor-aha. The name benerib can be translated as "sweetheart" and is thought to be an ephitet than a name.

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