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| |name = <hiero>i-t:n:ra Aa16:D36:V31 t: B1</hiero>
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| |name transcription = Maketaten <br> ''{{Unicode|mꜥkt itn}}''
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| |name explanation = ''Protected by Aten''
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| |image1 = Meketaten-Nefertiti.tiff
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| |image1 description = Meketaten on her mother's lap (left).
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| [[File:Meketaten-FragmentaryStatue-BrooklynMuseum.png|thumb|right|Fragmentary [[quartzite]] statue of the Amarna princess Meketaten, from the reign of Akhenaten, circa 1352-1336 B.C. On display at the [[Brooklyn Museum]]. The broken hand over the figure's right breast was common to images depicting young girls, and likely once held a flower or rattle.]]
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| '''Meketaten''' ("Behold the Aten" or "Protected by Aten") was the second daughter of six born to the Egyptian [[Pharaoh]] [[Akhenaten]] and his [[Great Royal Wife]] [[Nefertiti]]. She was probably born in year 4 of Akhenaten's reign. Although little is known about her, she is frequently depicted with her sisters accompanying her royal parents in the first two thirds of Akhenaten's seventeen-year reign.
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| ==Family==
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| Meketaten was the second daughter born to [[Akhenaten]] and [[Nefertiti]]. She had an older sister named [[Meritaten]] and four younger sisters named [[Ankhesenpaaten]], [[Neferneferuaten Tasherit]], [[Neferneferure]] and [[Setepenre (princess)|Setepenre]]. Tutankhaten was a half-brother.<ref>Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2004. ISBN 0-500-05128-3</ref>
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| ==Life==
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| Meketaten’s approximate year of birth is in or before year 4 of Akhenaten.<ref name="Tyldesley">Tyldesley, Joyce. Nefertiti: Egypt's Sun Queen. Penguin. 1998. ISBN 0-670-86998-8</ref> Meketaten is first depicted on the walls of the ''Hut-benben'' temple dedicated to her mother Nefertiti in [[Thebes, Egypt|Thebes]]. Meketaten appears behind her older sister [[Meritaten]] in some of the later inscriptions, thought to date to year 4 or later.<ref name="Redford">Redford, Donald B. Akhenaten: The Heretic King. Princeton University Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-691-00217-0</ref> Further arguments to suggest Meketaten was born in or before year 4 come from the fact that her figure was added to one of the boundary stela recording events in year 4 and carved in year 5.<ref name="Dodson">Dodson, Aidan, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation. The American University in Cairo Press. 2009, ISBN 978-977-416-304-3</ref>
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| Meketaten moved to the new capital city Akhetaten with her family when she was still a small child. She is depicted in several of the tombs of the nobles in Amarna. Meketaten is depicted in the tomb of [[Ay]] holding a tray of gifts while wrapping one arm around her mother’s neck.<ref name="Tyldesley"/> Other monuments mentioning Meketaten include a stela from Heliopolis, a statue base from the Fayoum, and the tombs of Panehesy and Parennefer.<ref name="Murnane"/> Meketaten was depicted with her parents and sisters at the reception of foreign tributes – a ceremony dating to year 12 - that can be seen on several scenes in the private tombs in Amarna of high-ranking officials named Huya and High Priest Meryre II.<ref name="Tyldesley"/><ref name="Redford"/>
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| ==Death and burial==
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| Meketaten died in approximately year 14 of [[Akhenaten]].<ref name="Redford"/> It is very likely that a plague swept across Egypt between Akhenaten's 12th and 15th regnal years, for many members of the royal family cease to be mentioned again; among them Queen Mother [[Tiye]], Queen [[Nefertiti]], Akhenaten's secondary wife [[Kiya]], Meketaten and the two youngest princesses, [[Neferneferure]] and [[Setepenre (princess)|Setepenre]].<ref name="Tyldesley"/> Meketaten's death could have resulted either from a plague, or from childbirth. The presence of a royal baby causes many to believe the young princess died in childbirth (in this case the father is most likely to had been Akhenaten himself, marrying his daughter), but it cannot be proven.<ref name="Tyldesley"/> An alternative interpretation suggested by van Dijk is that the child depicted in the scenes is the soul (the ka) of Meketaten.<ref name="Dodson"/>
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| [[File:Dibujo de tumba.jpg|575px|center|thumb|Meketaten under the canopy, on the wall paintings of the Chamber <math>\gamma</math>. In front of her: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Meritaten, Ankhesenpaaten and Neferneferuaten Tasherit.]] | |
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| Three chambers, denoted as Chambers <math>\alpha, \ \beta</math> and <math>\gamma</math> of the [[Royal Tomb of Akhenaten|Royal Tomb]] are believed to be used for the burials. Chambers <math>\alpha</math> and <math>\gamma</math> depict very similar scenes: Akhenaten and Nefertiti bend over the inert body of a woman, weeping and gripping each other's arms for support. Nearby a nurse stands with a baby in her arms, accompanied by a fan-bearer, which indicates the baby's royal status.
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| The names in the scene in chamber <math>\alpha</math> have been hacked out. In the chamber <math>\gamma</math> however the hieroglyphs identify the dead young woman as Meketaten. In the same chamber another scene shows Meketaten standing under a canopy which is usually associated with childbirth but can also interpreted as representing the rebirth of the princess. In front of her, amongst courtiers, stand Akhenaten, Nefertiti and their three remaining daughters, Meritaten, Ankhesenpaaten and [[Neferneferuaten Tasherit]].<ref name="Dodson"/>
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| It is possible that chamber <math>\alpha</math> was the burial place of someone other than Meketaten. There may even have been two burials which may have been those of [[Neferneferure]] and [[Setepenre (princess)|Setepenre]], but this is not certain.<ref name="Dodson"/> Another theory is that one of the scenes depicts [[Kiya]] and that the baby is [[Tutankhamun]].<ref name="Tyldesley"/>
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| Fragments of Meketaten’s sarcophagus were found in the royal tomb. Inscriptions mention her parents [[Akhenaten]] and [[Nefertiti]], her sister [[Ankhesenpaaten]] as well as her grandparents [[Amenhotep III]] and [[Queen Tiye]].<ref name="Murnane">Murnane, William J., Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt, Society of Biblical Literature, 1995 ISBN 1-55540-966-0</ref>
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| ==References==
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| {{reflist}}
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| {{Amarna Period Navigator}}
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| [[Category:Amarna Period]]
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| [[Category:Ancient Egyptian princesses]]
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| [[Category:14th-century BC women]]
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| [[Category:Deaths in childbirth]]
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