Sculpture fragment believed to be of Ankhesenamun, Brooklyn Museum, United States
Tenure
c. 1332–1323 BC
Born
c. 1348 BC[1] or c. 1342 BC[2] Thebes
Died
after 1322 BC (aged 20-26)[2]
Burial
KV21 (uncertain)
Spouse
Tutankhamun (half-brother or cousin) Ay (grandfather or great-uncle?)
Issue
317a and 317b (uncertain) Ankhesenpaaten Tasherit (uncertain)
Egyptian name
Dynasty
18th of Egypt
Father
Akhenaten
Mother
Nefertiti
Religion
Ancient Egyptian religion
Ankhesenamun (ˁnḫ-s-n-imn, "Her Life Is of Amun"; c. 1348[1] or c. 1342 – after 1322 BC[2]) was a queen who lived during the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. Born Ankhesenpaaten (ˁnḫ.s-n-pꜣ-itn, "she lives for the Aten"),[3] 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.[4] 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 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.[5]
DNA test results on mummies discovered in KV21 were released in February 2010, which has given rise to speculation that one of two late 18th Dynasty queens buried in that tomb could be Ankhesenamun. Because of their DNA, both mummies are thought to be members of that ruling house.[6]
^ abArnold, Dorothea; Allen, James P.; Green, L. (1996). The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt (Hardback ed.). New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. p. xviii. ISBN 0-87099-816-1. Retrieved 19 June 2021.
^ abcGalassi, F. M.; Ruhli, F. J.; Habicht, M. E. (2016). "Did Queen Ankhesenamun (c. 1342 - after 1322 BC) have a goitre?: Historico-clinical Reflections upon a paleo-pathographic study". Working Paper. doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.3356.5843. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
^Ranke, Hermann (1935). Die Ägyptischen Personennamen, Bd. 1: Verzeichnis der Namen(PDF). Glückstadt: J.J. Augustin. p. 67. Retrieved 25 July 2020.
^Dodson, Aidan; Dyan Hilton (2004). The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. p. 148.
^Grajetzki, Wolfram (2000). Ancient Egyptian Queens; a hieroglyphic dictionary. London: Golden House. p. 64.
^Hawass, Zahi; et al. (2010). "Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun's Family". The Journal of the American Medical Association. 303 (7): 638–647. doi:10.1001/jama.2010.121. PMID 20159872.
Ankhesenamun (ˁnḫ-s-n-imn, "Her Life Is of Amun"; c. 1348 or c. 1342 – after 1322 BC) was a queen who lived during the 18th Dynasty of Egypt. Born Ankhesenpaaten...
prominence and the royal couple changed their names to "Tutankhamun" and "Ankhesenamun", removing the -aten suffix. Additionally, he moved the royal court away...
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Tutankhamun of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Their mother is presumed to be Ankhesenamun, his only known wife, who has been tentatively identified through DNA...
married the widowed Great Royal Wife and young half-sister of Tutankhamun, Ankhesenamun, in order to obtain power; she did not live long afterward. Ay then married...
together, including Meritaten, Meketaten, Ankhesenpaaten (later called Ankhesenamun when she married Tutankhamun), Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Neferneferure...
could have been Meritaten or Nefertiti, but is most often identified as Ankhesenamun, asked Suppiluliuma I to send over a son during the late Eighteenth Dynasty...
pantheon. Similarly, his queen's name was changed from Ankhesenpaaten to Ankhesenamun. Shortly after Tutankhamun took power, he commissioned a full-size royal...
Tutankhamun's prenomen and nomen, as well as the name of his consort, Queen Ankhesenamun. The lower part of the panels show two Rekhyt birds, representing the...
in Mycenae. c. 1341 BC - Tutankhamun, Pharaoh of Egypt c. 1348 BC - Ankhesenamun Harding, Phillip (2001). Androtion and the Atthis. Clarendon Press. p...
Nibhururiya", is known from Hittite annals. She is often identified as Ankhesenamun, royal wife of Tutankhamun, although Nefertiti and Meritaten have also...
sister-wife, then named Ankhesenpaaten, followed him and was renamed Ankhesenamun. Worship of the Aten ceased for the most part and worship of Amun-Ra...
the royal bloodline. For example, Tutankhamun married his half-sister Ankhesenamun, and was himself the child of an incestuous union between Akhenaten and...
Succeeded his father as pharaoh, husband of Queen Nefertiti, father of Ankhesenamun, who married Tutankhamun. Smenkhkare – traditionally seen as one of Akhenaten's...
Hatshepsut Akhenaten and an unnamed sister Tutankhamun and his half-sister Ankhesenamun Djoser and his half-sister Hetephernebti Djedefre and his full sister...
partial word 'pa-aten,' part of the birth name of Tutankhamun's wife, Ankhesenamun. This inscription, the architectural style of the chamber, and the form...
foreign rulers, are therefore to be identified as Tut'ankhamun and 'Ankhesenamun. This makes it very unlikely from the start that any titles of honours...
prince from Anatolia even came to marry with the widow of Tutankhamun, Ankhesenamun. The political and military importance of the city, however, faded during...
married the widowed Great Royal Wife and young half-sister of Tutankhamun, Ankhesenamun, in order to obtain power; she did not live long afterward. Ay then married...
Egyptian religion List of solar deities Amun Ra Akhenaten Nefertiti Ankhesenamun Meritaten The Egyptian Van de Mieroop, Marc (2011). "8. The Amarna Revolution...
e Tutankhamun Family Akhenaten (father) "The Younger Lady" (mother) Ankhesenamun (wife) 317a and 317b mummies (daughters) Amenhotep III (grandfather)...
from the most formal, and possibly practical – "The royal widow [...] Ankhesenamun wrote a letter to the king of the Hittites, Egypt's old enemy, begging...
make a definitive identification. Hawass suggests this mummy may be Ankhesenamun, the Great Royal Wife of Tutankhamun, and daughter of Nefertiti. Using...
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