Meketaten
Egyptian · mortal · new kingdom · mortal
Second of the six daughters of Akhenaten and Nefertiti; died young c. year 14 and was mourned in the reliefs of the Amarna Royal Tomb (TA26), one of the rare royal death-scenes of Egyptian art (the childbirth interpretation is debated). Both parents wired (Akhenaten, Nefertiti). Authored as mortal (a historical 18th-Dynasty royal, per the historical-human rule).
Parentage
Domains
- royal women of amarna
Epithets
- King's Daughter of his body, his beloved
Relations
- sibling: Meritaten
- sibling: Ankhesenamun
- sibling: Tutankhamun
Sources
- Royal Tomb of Akhenaten (TA26), chamber gamma reliefs; Amarna royal-family talatat reliefs and boundary stelae
- Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (Thames & Hudson, 2004)
- Amarna royal-family reliefs naming her as second daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti