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Meritaten
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thumb|Princess Meritaten, from el-Amarna, ca. 1365-47 BCE, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen (1) (36024093800) (retouched) Meritaten, also spelled Merytaten, Meritaton or Meryetaten () (14th century BC), was an ancient Egyptian royal woman of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Her name means "She who is beloved of Aten"; Aten being the sun-deity whom her father, Pharaoh Akhenaten, worshipped. She held several titles, performing official roles for her father and becoming the Great Royal Wife to Pharaoh Smenkhkare, who may have been a brother or son of Akhenaten. Meritaten has been theorized to b
Key facts
- Royalty.consort
- yes
- Royalty.name
- Meritaten
- Royalty.title
- Great Royal Wife, King's Daughter
- Royalty.image
- Princess of Akhenaton family-E 14715-IMG 0319-gradient.jpg
- Royalty.caption
- Bust of a daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, perhaps the young Meritaten, in the Louvre, Paris
- Royalty.native_lang1
- Egyptian name
- Royalty.native_lang1_name1
- i-t:n:ra N36:t-B1
- Royalty.succession
- Queen consort of Egypt
- Royalty.reign
- 1336–1334 BC
- Royalty.succession1
- Pharaoh
- Royalty.moretext1
- (as Neferneferuaten, disputed)
- Royalty.predecessor1
- unclear, Akhenaten or Smenkhkare
- Royalty.successor1
- unclear, Smenkhkare or Tutankhamun
- Royalty.reign type1
- Reign
- Royalty.birth_place
- Possibly Thebes
- Royalty.burial_place
- KV35?
- Royalty.spouse
- Smenkhkare
- Royalty.issue
- Meritaten Tasherit (possibly)Ankhesenpaaten Tasherit (possibly)Tutankhamun (possibly)
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- Family
- Biography
- Early years in Thebes
- Amarna princess
- Great Royal Wife
- Death and burial
- Possible mummy
- References
- External links
thumb|Princess Meritaten, from el-Amarna, ca. 1365-47 BCE, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen (1) (36024093800) (retouched) Meritaten, also spelled Merytaten, Meritaton or Meryetaten () (14th century BC), was an ancient Egyptian royal woman of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Her name means "She who is beloved of Aten"; Aten being the sun-deity whom her father, Pharaoh Akhenaten, worshipped. She held several titles, performing official roles for her father and becoming the Great Royal Wife to Pharaoh Smenkhkare, who may have been a brother or son of Akhenaten. Meritaten has been theorized to be identical with female Pharaoh Ankhkheperure Neferneferuaten, however inscription on the box found in Tutankhamun's tomb seemingly presents the two as different individuals.
==Family== Meritaten was the first of six daughters born to Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife, Nefertiti. Her sisters are Meketaten, Ankhesenpaaten, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Neferneferure, and Setepenre. Meritaten is mentioned in diplomatic letters, by the name Mayati. She is mentioned in a letter from Abimilki of Tyre. The reference usually is thought to date to the period when Meritaten's position at court became more important, during the latter part of the reign of Akhenaten. It is possible, however, that the letter refers to the birth of Meritaten.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meritaten” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.