Ankhesenamun
Egyptian · mortal · new kingdom · Recorded classification
Third of the six daughters of Akhenaten and Nefertiti (born Ankhesenpaaten); became Great Royal Wife of her half-brother Tutankhamun (renamed Ankhesenamun with the Amun restoration). After his death she is the queen most often identified with the Dakhamunzu of the Hittite Zannanza affair, and last appears beside the successor Ay. Both parents wired (Akhenaten, Nefertiti); sibling-and-spouse double edge to Tutankhamun reciprocated in-batch. Authored as mortal (a historical 18th-Dynasty royal, per the historical-human rule).
Parentage
Domains
- queenship
- royal women of amarna
Powers
- Petitions a foreign king for a royal husband
Epithets
- Great Royal Wife (of Tutankhamun)Objects from KV62 naming Ankhesenamun (primary)
- Dakhamunzu ('the King's Wife', Hittite rendering)Hittite 'Deeds of Suppiluliuma' (the Dakhamunzu appeal) (primary)
Relations
- sibling: MeritatenFull sister; eldest of the six daughters.Amarna royal-family reliefs naming the daughters of Akhenaten and Nefertiti in sequence (primary)
- sibling: MeketatenFull sister; second of the six daughters.Amarna royal-family reliefs naming the daughters in sequence (primary)
- sibling: TutankhamunHalf-brother and also her husband — both children of Akhenaten; she became his Great Royal Wife (see spouse relation).Inscriptions of KV62; Hawass et al., JAMA 303.7 (2010) (primary)
- spouse: TutankhamunGreat Royal Wife of her half-brother Tutankhamun; their only known children were two stillborn daughters buried with him in KV62.Objects from KV62 naming Ankhesenamun as Great Royal Wife; royal reliefs of the pair (primary)
Sources
- existence: Objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62); Amarna royal-family reliefs and boundary stelae; the Hittite 'Deeds of Suppiluliuma' (primary); Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (Thames & Hudson, 2004) (secondary); Joyce Tyldesley, Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen (Viking, 1998) (secondary)
- parentage: Amarna royal-family reliefs naming her as third daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti (primary)