Tutankhamun
Egyptian · mortal · new kingdom · mortal
The boy-pharaoh, son of Akhenaten (KV55 DNA paternity, Hawass et al. 2010). Born Tutankhaten during the Aten revolution; restored the cult of Amun, changed his name to Tutankhamun, and married his half-sister Ankhesenamun. Died in his late teens c. 1323 BCE; his near-intact tomb (KV62), found by Howard Carter in 1922, made him the most famous pharaoh. Authored as mortal (a historical 18th-Dynasty royal, per the historical-human rule), matching the corpus's treatment of Nefertiti and Tiye. His mother is the KV35 'Younger Lady', a sister of Akhenaten not registered in the corpus and not Nefertiti, so only the paternal edge is wired.
Parentage
Domains
- kingship
- religious restoration
Powers
- Restores and re-endows the temples of the gods
Epithets
- Nebkheperure ('Lord of the manifestations of Ra')
- Living image of Amun (twt-ꜥnḫ-ı͗mn)
Relations
- sibling: Meritaten
- sibling: Meketaten
- sibling: Ankhesenamun
- spouse: Ankhesenamun
Sources
- Tomb of Tutankhamun (KV62), Howard Carter excavation 1922; the Restoration Stela (Karnak); Hawass et al., 'Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family,' JAMA 303.7 (2010): 638–647
- Nicholas Reeves, The Complete Tutankhamun (Thames & Hudson, 1990)
- Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (Thames & Hudson, 2004)
- Hawass et al., JAMA 303.7 (2010): 638–647 (KV55 = Akhenaten = father; KV35 'Younger Lady' = mother)