Meketaten

Maketaten, also Maket - Aton or Meketaton called, was an ancient Egyptian princess of the 18th dynasty and the second oldest daughter of King (Pharaoh) Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti.

She appears along with her ​​older sister Meritaton on the boundary stelae at Amarna, which dated to the sixth year of the reign of Akhenaten. Since her name and likeness were added later on the stele, is to assume that Maketaten was born towards the end of the 5th year of the reign.

Maketaten died very young. Your year of death is dated in the 14th year of the reign of her father, as it is evidenced by a short inscription on a vessel in the year 13. She died at the age of 9 or 10 years. The remnants of her sarcophagus were in the king's grave at Amarna ( Amarna grave 26) found, it was concluded that Maketaten had been buried there. A representation in space gamma ( wall A) in the grave documents the profound grief of the royal couple to his daughter. What the young princess died, is not known. Rolf Krauss accepted following the presentation, that she died in childbirth, since an infant is represented with a nurse and a royal fan bearer. Even Hermann A. Schlögl and Nicholas Reeves followed this assumption. However, the reconstruction of the found in the royal grave parts of her sarcophagus was close to a height of about one meter, what the presumption that she died in childbirth precludes.