Meritaten
Egyptian · mortal · new kingdom · mortal
Eldest of the six daughters of Akhenaten and Nefertiti; the most-depicted Amarna princess, later Great Royal Wife of Smenkhkare and a leading candidate for the female pharaoh Neferneferuaten. Both parents wired (Akhenaten, Nefertiti). Authored as mortal (a historical 18th-Dynasty royal, per the historical-human rule).
Parentage
Domains
- royal women of amarna
- queenship
Epithets
- King's Daughter of his body, his beloved
- Great Royal Wife (of Smenkhkare)
Relations
- sibling: Meketaten
- sibling: Ankhesenamun
- sibling: Tutankhamun
Sources
- Amarna Boundary Stelae; royal-family talatat reliefs of Akhetaten; tomb of Meryre II at Amarna
- Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunset (AUC Press, 2009)
- Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (Thames & Hudson, 2004)
- Amarna royal-family reliefs naming her as eldest daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti