Meketaten
Meketaten (, meaning "Behold the Aten" or "Protected by Aten") was the second of six daughters born to the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti. She likely lived between Year 4 and Year 14 of Akhenaten's reign. Although little is known about her, she is frequently depicted with her sisters accompanying her royal parents in the first two-thirds of the Amarna Period.
Person
- Born
- 1348-00-00
- Died
- 1338-00-00
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Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Meketaten
- Royalty.title
- King's Daughter
- Royalty.image
- File:Meketaten-Nefertiti.tiff
- Royalty.caption
- Meketaten on her mother's lap (left)
- Royalty.death_place
- Amarna
- Royalty.burial_place
- Royal Tomb of Akhenaten, Amarna
- Royalty.native_lang1
- Egyptian name
- Royalty.native_lang1_name1
- i-t:n:ra Aa16:D36:V31 t: B1
- Royalty.dynasty
- 18th Dynasty
- Royalty.father
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Meketaten (, meaning "Behold the Aten" or "Protected by Aten") was the second of six daughters born to the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti. She likely lived between Year 4 and Year 14 of Akhenaten's reign. Although little is known about her, she is frequently depicted with her sisters accompanying her royal parents in the first two-thirds of the Amarna Period.
==Biography== thumb|upright|Fragmentary quartzite statue of the Amarna princess Meketaten, from the reign of Akhenaten, circa 1352–1336 B.C. On display at the [[Brooklyn Museum. The broken hand over the figure's right breast was common to images depicting young girls, and likely once held a flower or rattle.|left]]Meketaten was born approximately in Year 4 of Akhenaten's reign to him and his Great Royal Wife, Nefertiti. She had an elder sister, Meritaten, and four younger sisters: Ankhesenpaaten, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Neferneferure and Setepenre. Tutankhaten was likely their full brother or half-brother through their father.