Meketaten
Egyptian · mortal · new kingdom · Recorded classification
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 belovedAmarna royal-family reliefs (princess titulary) (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: AnkhesenamunFull sister; third of the six daughters.Amarna royal-family reliefs naming the daughters in sequence (primary)
- sibling: TutankhamunHalf-brother; both children of Akhenaten.Dodson & Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (2004) (secondary)
Sources
- existence: Royal Tomb of Akhenaten (TA26), chamber gamma reliefs; Amarna royal-family talatat reliefs and boundary stelae (primary); Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (Thames & Hudson, 2004) (secondary)
- parentage: Amarna royal-family reliefs naming her as second daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti (primary)