Meritaten
| Meritaten | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Great Royal Wife, King's Daughter | ||||||
Bust of a daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, perhaps the young Meritaten, in the Louvre, Paris | ||||||
| Queen consort of Egypt | ||||||
| Tenure | 1335–1334 BC | |||||
| Pharaoh | ||||||
| Reign | c. 1334–1332 BC | |||||
| Predecessor | unclear, Akhenaten or Smenkhkare | |||||
| Successor | unclear, Smenkhkare or Tutankhamun | |||||
| Born | Possibly Thebes | |||||
| Spouse | Smenkhkare | |||||
| Issue | Meritaten Tasherit | |||||
| Egyptian name | ||||||
| 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) (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.