Meritaten
Egyptian · mortal · new kingdom · Recorded classification
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 belovedAmarna royal-family reliefs and boundary stelae (princess titulary) (primary)
- Great Royal Wife (of Smenkhkare)Tomb of Meryre II at Amarna (primary)
Relations
- sibling: MeketatenFull sister; second 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: Amarna Boundary Stelae; royal-family talatat reliefs of Akhetaten; tomb of Meryre II at Amarna (primary); Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunset (AUC Press, 2009) (secondary); Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (Thames & Hudson, 2004) (secondary)
- parentage: Amarna royal-family reliefs naming her as eldest daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti (primary)