Ankhesenpaaten tasherit
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Meritaten
Great Royal Wife, King's Daughter
Meritaten, also spelled Merytaten, Meritaton or Meryetaten (Ancient Egyptian: mrii.t-itn)[1] (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, PharaohAkhenaten, 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 also may have served as pharaoh in her own right under the name Ankhkheperure Neferneferuaten.[2]
Family
Meritaten was the first of six daughters born to PharaohAkhenaten and his Great Royal Wife, Nefertiti. Her sisters are Meketaten, Ankhesenpaaten, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Neferneferure, and Setepenre.[3] Meritaten is mentioned in diplomatic letters, by the name Mayati.[2] She is mentioned in a letter from Abimilki of Tyre. The reference usually is thought to date to the period when Meritaten's p
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Meritaten
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
1400 BC - 1400 BC
Meritaten
Meritaten, also spelled Merytaten, Meritaton or Meryetaten (Ancient Egyptian: mrii.t-itn) (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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meritaten has received more than 457,253 page views. Her biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Meritaten is the 549th most popular religious figure (down from 367th in 2019), the 104th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 63rd in 2019) and the 20th most popular Egyptian Religious Figure.
Meritaten was the daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. She was the second wife of her father and the mother of Tutankhamun. She is most fam
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Smenkhkare
Egyptian pharaoh
Smenkhkare (alternatively romanized Smenkhare, Smenkare, or Smenkhkara; meaning "Vigorous is the soul of Re") was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of unknown background who lived and ruled during the Amarna Period of the 18th Dynasty. Smenkhkare was husband to Meritaten, the daughter of his likely co-regent, Akhenaten. Since the Amarna period was subject to a large-scale condemnation of memory by later pharaohs, very little can be said of Smenkhkare with certainty, and he has hence been subject to immense speculation.
Origin and family
Smenkhkare's origins are unknown. It is assumed he was a member of the royal family, likely either a brother or son of the pharaoh Akhenaten. If he is Akhenaten's brother, his mother was likely either Tiye or Sitamun. If a son of Akhenaten, he was presumably an older brother of Tutankhamun, as he succeeded the throne ahead of him; his mother was likely an unknown, lesser wife. An alternative suggestion, based on objects from the tomb of Tutankhamun, is that Smenkhkare was the son of Akhenaten's older brot
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