- Beketaten
Beketaten (
14th century BCE ) was anAncient Egypt ian princess of the18th dynasty . She was the youngest daughter ofPharaoh Amenhotep III and hisGreat Royal Wife Tiye , thus the sister of PharaohAkhenaten [Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson (2004), p.154] .Her name means "Handmaid of
Aten ", which indicates she was born during theAmarna period , and since on pictures she seems to be the same age as Akhenaten's daughters, some see this as an evidence of a long co-regency between Amenhotep III and Akhenaten. She was depicted in the Amarna tomb of Huya twice.Beketaten's only known title is "King's Daughter of his Body." It is likely that she died at a young age since she is not mentioned in the historical records after Queen Tiye's death. Some scholars have speculated that
Nebetah , Amenhotep III's youngest daughter was identical with Beketaten. [Joyce Tyldesley: "Nefertiti – Egypt's Sun Queen"] However, no evidence proves that they are the same people.ources
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