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Ankhesenamun
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thumb|Sculpture fragment believed to be of Ankhesenamun, Brooklyn Museum, United States thumb|Ring Bezel, with the name of Princess Ankhesenpaaten Ankhesenamun (, "Her Life Is of Amun"; or – after 1322 BCE) was an ancient Egyptian queen who lived during the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. Born Ankhesenpaaten (, "she lives for the Aten"), she was the third of six known daughters of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti. She became the Great Royal Wife of Tutankhamun. The change in her name reflects the changes in ancient Egyptian religion during her lifetime after her father'
Key facts
- Royalty.consort
- yes
- Royalty.name
- Ankhesenamun
- Royalty.title
- Great Royal Wife
- Royalty.image
- Mut with features of Ankhesenamun.jpg
- Royalty.caption
- Sculpture of the goddess Mutwith features of Ankhesenamun,Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Royalty.native_lang1
- Egyptian name
- Royalty.native_lang1_name1
- M17-mn:N35:-S34-S29:N35-B1
- Royalty.succession
- Queen consort of Egypt
- Royalty.reign
- c. 1331–1323 BC
- Royalty.reign type
- Tenure
- Royalty.birth_date
- c. 1348 BC (earliest) or c. 1342 BC
- Royalty.birth_place
- Thebes
- Royalty.death_date
- Uncertainty (after 1322 BC)
- Royalty.spouse
- Tutankhamun (widowed)Ay
- Royalty.issue
- 317a and 317b (uncertain) Ankhesenpaaten Tasherit (uncertain)
- Royalty.dynasty
- 18th of Egypt
- Royalty.father
- Akhenaten
- Royalty.mother
- Nefertiti
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Ancient Egypt
- Place of birth
- Thebes
- Place of death
- Memphis
- Spouse
- Ay
- Father
- Akhenaten
- Mother
- Nefertiti
- Sibling
- Ankhesenpaaten Tasherit
- Occupation
- queen
- Position held
- Great Royal Wife
- Noble title
- Great Royal Wife
- Image
- Queen Ankhesenamun with Sitrum and menat.jpg
- Said to be same as
- Dakhamunzu
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- date of birth
- 1348-00-00
- date of death
- 1322-00-00
- Commons category
- Ankhesenamun
- place of burial
- Valley of the Kings
- name in hiero markup
- M17-X1:N35:N5-S34-S29:N35-G40-B1
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Early life
- Later life
- Hittite letters
- Mummy KV21A
- KV63
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- External links
thumb|Sculpture fragment believed to be of Ankhesenamun, Brooklyn Museum, United States thumb|Ring Bezel, with the name of Princess Ankhesenpaaten Ankhesenamun (, "Her Life Is of Amun"; or – after 1322 BCE) was an ancient Egyptian queen who lived during the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. Born Ankhesenpaaten (, "she lives for the Aten"), she was the third of six known daughters of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti. She became the Great Royal Wife of Tutankhamun. The change in her name reflects the changes in ancient Egyptian religion during her lifetime after her father's death. Her youth is well documented in the ancient reliefs and paintings of the reign of her parents.
Ankhesenamun was not very well documented as being the Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Initially, she may have been married to her father and it is possible that, upon the death of Tutankhamun, she was married briefly to Tutankhamun's successor, Ay, who is believed by some to be her maternal grandfather.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ankhesenamun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.