Beketaten

Beketaten () (14th century BCE) was an ancient Egyptian princess of the 18th Dynasty. Beketaten is considered to be the youngest daughter of Pharaoh Amenhotep III and his Great Royal Wife Tiye, thus the sister of Pharaoh Akhenaten. Her name means "Handmaid of Aten".

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Royalty.name: Beketaten
Royalty.title: King's Daughter
Royalty.image: TombHuya2.jpg
Royalty.caption: Queen Tiye's sculptor Yuti finishes a statue of Beketaten. From the Amarna tomb of Huya
Royalty.burial_place: KV35 if The Younger Lady
Royalty.native_lang1: Egyptian name
Royalty.native_lang1_name1: i-t:n:ra G29:t-B1
Royalty.dynasty: 18th Dynasty
Royalty.father: Amenhotep III or Akhenaten
Royalty.mother: Tiye or Kiya

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Instance of: human
Gender: female
Place of birth: Thebes
Father: Amenhotep III
Mother: Tiye
Sibling: Akhenaten
Occupation: aristocrat
Family: Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Noble title: princess
Image: TombHuya2.jpg

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date of birth: 1400-01-01
date of death: 1400-01-01

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Family
Appearance in Amarna Tomb 1
Death and association with The Younger Lady
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== Family == Beketaten was most likely the youngest daughter of Amenhotep III and Tiye. This would mean their other children were her siblings, including Prince Thutmose, the Pharaoh Akhenaten, Sitamun, Isis, Henuttaneb, and Nebetah. Some scholars have speculated that Nebetah was identical with Beketaten. However, no evidence proves that they are the same person.

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