Maketaton

Maketaton in hieroglyphics

Maketaton
(Maket Aton)
Mˁkt Jtn
Protected by Aton

Maketatons pen palette, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Maketaton , also called Maket-Aton or Meketaton , was an ancient Egyptian princess of the 18th dynasty and the second eldest daughter of King ( Pharaoh ) Akhenaten and his great royal wife Nefertiti .

She appears with her older sister Meritaton on the border steles in Amarna , which date back to Akhenaten's sixth year of reign. Since her name and portrait were added to the stele later, it can be assumed that Maketaton was born towards the end of the 5th year of reign.

Maketaton died very young. The year of her death is dated to the 14th year of her father's reign, as a short inscription on a vessel attests to the year 13. She passed away at the age of 9 or 10. The remains of her sarcophagus were found in the royal tomb in Amarna ( Amarna tomb 26 ), from which it was concluded that Maketaton was buried there. A representation in room gamma (wall A) in the grave documents the deep mourning of the royal couple for their daughter. It is not known what the young princess died of. Based on the depiction, Rolf Krauss assumed that she had died in childbirth, as an infant with a wet nurse and a royal fan carrier is shown here. Also Hermann A. Schlögl and Nicholas Reeves followed this assumption. However, the reconstruction of the parts of her sarcophagus found in the royal grave suggested a height of about one meter, which contradicts the assumption that she died in childbed.

In the tomb of Tutankhamun ( KV62 ) in the Valley of the Kings there was an ivory pens' palette with her name on it, which is in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. Another palette bearing her name is on display in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

literature

Dorothea Arnold : The Royal Women of Amarna. Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY 1996, ISBN 978-0-8109-6504-1 , p. 11.
Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, London 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3 , p. 155
Thomas Kühn: Moving Fates - Nefertiti's Daughters. In: Kemet. 1/2002, pp. 24-25

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Marc Gabolde : The end of the Amarna period. In: Alfred Grimm , Sylvia Schoske : The secret of the golden coffin. Akhenaten and the end of the Amarna period. (= Writings from the Egyptian Collection. [SAS] Vol. 10). Munich 2001, ISBN 3-87490-722-8 , p. 24.
↑ Thomas Kühn: Moving Fates - Nefertiti Daughters. In: Kemet. 1/2002, p. 24.
^ Hermann A. Schlögl : Akhenaten - Tutankhamun. Facts and texts. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-447-02337-6 , p. 59.
↑ Nicholas Reeves : Akhenaten. Egypt's false prophet. (= Cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 91). von Zabern, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-8053-2828-1 , p. 184.

personal data
SURNAME	Maketaton
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Maket-aton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Princess of the 18th Dynasty in ancient Egypt
DATE OF BIRTH	14th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	14th century BC Chr.

[Marc_Gabolde-1] Marc Gabolde : The end of the Amarna period. In: Alfred Grimm , Sylvia Schoske : The secret of the golden coffin. Akhenaten and the end of the Amarna period. (= Writings from the Egyptian Collection. [SAS] Vol. 10). Munich 2001, ISBN 3-87490-722-8 , p. 24.

[2] Thomas Kühn: Moving Fates - Nefertiti Daughters. In: Kemet. 1/2002, p. 24.

[3] Hermann A. Schlögl : Akhenaten - Tutankhamun. Facts and texts. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-447-02337-6 , p. 59.

[4] Nicholas Reeves : Akhenaten. Egypt's false prophet. (= Cultural history of the ancient world . Vol. 91). von Zabern, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-8053-2828-1 , p. 184.