Ankhesenamen

Ankhesenamen

▪ queen of Egypt
original name  Ankhesenpaaton  
flourished 2nd millennium BCE
 
 queen of ancient Egypt (Egypt, ancient) (reigned 1332–22 BCE), who shared the throne with the young king Tutankhamen.

      Ankhesenamen was the third daughter of Akhenaton and Nefertiti, the couple who introduced the religious and cultural innovations of the Amarna period. She was probably married to her father toward the end of his reign, and the marriage seems to have produced one daughter, Ankhesenpaaton-tasherit (“Ankhesenpaaton the Younger”).

      At the accession of Tutankhamen, the young king and Ankhesepaaton were married. When the king's name was subsequently altered to incorporate the name of Amon, so was hers. At Tutankhamen's early death, she seems to have taken an unexpected role in international affairs, in an incident known only from Hittite documents. The Hittite annals record the arrival of a letter from an unnamed queen of Egypt, recently widowed on the death of her husband, called Nibkhururiya—a name that corresponds most closely to Tutankhamen's coronation name, Nebkheperura. The letter asked for a Hittite prince in marriage, who would then ascend the Egyptian throne as king. Suspecting treachery, the Hittite ruler sent an emissary to learn the queen's true intent. Upon his receipt the following spring of Ankhesenamen's assurances and another more urgent plea, he sent one of his sons to Egypt; however, the Hittite prince died en route. It has been suggested by some scholars that this incident may have taken place on the death of Akhenaton—with “Nibkhururiya” an approximation of his own coronation name, Neferkheperura—in which case the queenly petitioner would have been Nefertiti.

      An inscribed ring and gold foil fragments found in the Valley of the Kings (Kings, Valley of the) depict Ankhesenamen together with her husband's successor, Ay, but there is no clear indication that they were married. On Tutankhamen's monuments, Ankhesenamen suffered from the general erasure of names of all major figures associated with the Amarna period, a process initiated by King Horemheb.

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