Neferneferuaten Tasherit
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Neferneferuaten Tasherit (14th century BCE) was an Ancient Egyptian princess of the 18th dynasty, the daughter of Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti. She is a possible candidate as the pharaoh, Neferneferuaten, whose exact identity is still undetermined, but who is thought to have been a woman. Her sister and mother are other possible candidates.
Neferneferuaten was born around the 7th regnal year of her father. She was the fourth of six known daughters of the royal couple. It is likely that she was born in Akhetaten, the capital founded by her father. Her name Neferneferuaten ("Beauty of the Beauties of Aten" or "Most Beautiful One of Aten") is the exact copy of the name Nefertiti took in the 5th regnal year. ("Ta-sherit" simply means "the younger one").
She is shown with her sisters Meritaten and Ankhesenpaaten mourning the death of Meketaten in year 14, of which her younger sisters Neferneferure and Setepenre are not. It is unknown what became of Neferneferuaten Tasherit, but it is thought she died before Tutankhamun and Ankhesenpaaten came to the throne.
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- Joyce Tyldesley: Nefertiti – Egypt's Sun Queen
