نيفيرنفيرواتين
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