Ankhesenamun
Egyptian · mortal · new kingdom · mortal
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)
- Dakhamunzu ('the King's Wife', Hittite rendering)
Relations
- sibling: Meritaten
- sibling: Meketaten
- sibling: Tutankhamun
- spouse: Tutankhamun
Sources
- Objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62); Amarna royal-family reliefs and boundary stelae; the Hittite 'Deeds of Suppiluliuma'
- Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (Thames & Hudson, 2004)
- Joyce Tyldesley, Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen (Viking, 1998)
- Amarna royal-family reliefs naming her as third daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti