Girls of Akhénaton

The royal couple formed by Akhénaton and Néfertiti gives rise to six children, only girls , even if certain historians advance the assumption according to which the future Toutânkhamon is also the son of the Pharaon heretic . Néfertiti fills her royal husband by putting at the world six little girls of a great beauty designed during the first ten years of its reign:

Mérytaton, “liked of Aton”,

Mekhétaton, “protected from Aton”,

Ânkhésenpaaton, “it lives for Aton”,

Néfernéferouaton, “beautiful is the perfection of Aton”,

Néfernéferourê, “beautiful is the Re perfection”,

Sétepenrê, “elected of Re”

Bakhétaton, “the maidservant of the Aton god”, the very young sister of the Pharaon Akhénaton, last girl of Amenhotep {{III}} and of the queen-mother Tiyi, disappeared at the tenth year from the reign from his/her son, is high with his nieces.

All the scenes showing Akhénaton, Néfertiti and their daughters give an indication of the daily life of the royal family.

Mérytaton, the elder one, knows all the wheels of the religious policy founded by the Pharaon. Akhénaton, which intends it to become queen, does not hesitate to make it represent over all the low-reliefs at its sides. It is the same for the two following ones, Mekhétaton and Ânkhésenpaaton. Moreover, these three girls take such an importance in its eyes that, little before the end of its reign, it decides to marry them.

In year 12 of the reign of Akhénaton, Mekhétaton, hardly pubescent, dies a few months after its marriage with his/her father, perhaps of the continuations of a childbirth.

Smenkhkarê, young brother of the king, who only reigns very little of time, marries Mérytaton, elder girls, however already married to his/her father. The latter dies also young person.

Toutânkhamon, which succeeds to him on the throne, marries the princess Ânkhésenpaaton, third child of Akhénaton and Néfertiti, but some think that it would be acted in fact of the girl whom the princess had with her Akhénaton father and who would bear the same name as his mother. With the death of Toutânkhamon, Ânkhésenpaamon - it had also changed its name - could be this queen of widowed Egypt, which one found the message with Hattousa, intended to the sovereign hittite Suppiluliuma {{Ier}} and asking him for his son in marriage. It would be then about an operation intended to counter the projects of Aÿ, or more probably of Horemheb. The son of the king hittite share towards the Egypt, where he never arrives, assassinated on a track of Palestine. Ânkhésenpaamon disappears little from time afterwards.

As for the three other girls, one knows nothing of their life.

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