| Meritaten | ||||||
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| Great Royal Wife, King's Daughter | ||||||
 Bust of a daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, perhaps the young Meritaten, in the Louvre, Paris | ||||||
| Born | Possibly Thebes | |||||
| Spouse | Smenkhkare | |||||
| Issue | Meritaten Tasherit | |||||
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| Dynasty | 18th of Egypt | |||||
| Father | Akhenaten | |||||
| Mother | Nefertiti | |||||
| Religion | Ancient Egyptian religion and Atenism | |||||
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, 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 also may have served as pharaoh in her own right under the name Ankhkheperure Neferneferuaten.[2]
- ^ Ranke, Hermann (1935). Die Ägyptischen Personennamen, Bd. 1: Verzeichnis der Namen (PDF). Glückstadt: J.J. Augustin. p. 161. Retrieved 24 July 2020.
- ^ J. Tyldesley, Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt, 2006, Thames & Hudson, pg 136–137