Definitions for "Meketaten"
Daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, known from reliefs at Karnak and from the Royal Tomb at Amarna. Translation of name: "She Whom the Aten Protects". Links: Royalty.
Deceased, died in childbirth, Queen of Egypt, Great Wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten, second daughter of Nefertiti and Akhenaten, favorite cousin of Prince Smenkhkare. Would have been seventeen-years-old.
Meketaten ("Behold the Aten" or "Protected by Aten") was the second daughter of six born to the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten and his Great Royal Wife Nefertiti. She was probably born in year 2 or 3 Akhenaten's reign. Although little is known about her, she is frequently depicted with her sisters accompanying her royal parents in the first two thirds of Akhenaten's seventeen year reign.