Neferneferuaten
Ankhkheperure-Merit-Neferkheperure/Waenre/Aten Neferneferuaten (), or "Neferneferuaten", is the name of a queen regnant ('female king') of ancient Egypt who reigned in her own right near the end of the Amarna Period during the Eighteenth Dynasty. Her name features feminine gender traces, and one of her epithets was Akhet-en-hyes ("Beneficial for her husband"). This epithet also features in one version of her nomen (birth name) cartouche. (See Ancient Egyptian royal titulary.) The name Neferneferuaten translates as either "(“Perfect/Beautiful is the perfection/beauty of Aten”)
Key facts
- Pharaoh.Name
- Neferneferuaten
- Pharaoh.NomenHiero
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- Pharaoh.Nomen
- Neferneferuaten (plus ephithet)
- Pharaoh.PrenomenHiero
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- Pharaoh.Prenomen
- Ankhkheperure (plus ephithet)
- Pharaoh.image
- Golden Nut Pectoral Carter no. 261p1 (cropped).jpg
- Pharaoh.caption
- This gold pectoral of the goddess Nut (Cairo JE61944) originally belonged to the female pharaoh Neferneferuaten since it was inscribed with her cartouches. Later, her cartouches were replaced with those of Tutankhamun.
- Pharaoh.Predecessor
- Uncertain: Akhenaten (most likely) or Smenkhkare
- Pharaoh.Successor
- Uncertain: Smenkhkare or Tutankhamun
- Pharaoh.Spouse
- if Nefertiti: Akhenatenif Meritaten: Smenkhkare
- Pharaoh.Dynasty
- Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt
Article
16 sectionsContents
- Summary
- Female king
- Manetho's ''Aegyptiaca''
- Identity
- Nefertiti
- Meritaten
- Neferneferuaten-tasherit
- General chronology
- Original succession
- Revised succession
- Key evidence
- Possible sole reign
- Reuse of Neferneferuaten's funerary equipment for Tutankhamun's burial
- References
- Online presentation regarding Neferneferuaten
- Further reading
Ankhkheperure-Merit-Neferkheperure/Waenre/Aten Neferneferuaten (), or "Neferneferuaten", is the name of a queen regnant ('female king') of ancient Egypt who reigned in her own right near the end of the Amarna Period during the Eighteenth Dynasty. Her name features feminine gender traces, and one of her epithets was Akhet-en-hyes ("Beneficial for her husband"). This epithet also features in one version of her nomen (birth name) cartouche. (See Ancient Egyptian royal titulary.) The name Neferneferuaten translates as either "(“Perfect/Beautiful is the perfection/beauty of Aten”)
There is debate among egyptologist wheter Neferneferuaten is to be identified with Pharaoh Smenkhkare (with whom she shared the throne name Ankhkheperure), or wheter they were separate individuals.