#neferneferure

[geraldofallon]

Fallen London’s True Identities

Neferneferure as the Roseate Queen of Arbor

[alexboakeillo]

Neferneferure, Shabti, Channeler of the Unknown—for @opalkire. 🖤

[alexsrandomramblings]

Standing here thinking "Huh... why does the name Neferneferure seem so familiar?". Look it up and it's just "Ooooh, I did some research on her and her sisters up earlier today, didn't I?"

[tiny-librarian]

Feb 9th, 1923

Finished cleaning Box 54. Docket on lid said 17 ? Of lapis lazuli. There were 15 blue glaze ewers, but two additional stoppers. Also other gl. Vases, 2 beautiful statuettes, one of blue glass, the other of crystalline limestone, a large scarab of blue glass and gold, & various other objects. All in confusion. Pieces of objects not belonging to this box at all, including a piece of a chariot.

From the journal of Arthur Mace, an Egyptologist that was part of Howard Carter’s team during the excavation of the Tomb of Tutankhamun.

[siriusbstellar]

Love He !! 

AnkhEnAten   “ Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.”

Before the fifth year of his reign, he was known as Amenhotep IV

Consort

Nefertiti

Kiya

An unidentified sister-wife (most likely) Tadukhipa

Children

Smenkhkare?

MeritAten

MeketAten

AnkhesenAmun

NeferneferuAten Tasherit

NeferNeferure

SetepenRe

Tutankhamun (most likely)

Ankhesenpaaten Tasherit?

Meritaten Tasherit?

Father  Amenhotep III

Mother  Queen Tiye

[misssylvertongue]

women that i love : [1/5]

↠ meritaten, pharaon of egypt

↠ Meritaten was probably born in the city of Thebes, as the first child of the pharaon Akhenaten and her wife, Nefertiti. Her exact date of birth is unknow but is estimed between the year III to VI of her father (-13353/-1350 or even -1355 are eligible date of birth). The fact than she is presented in official events at the year V suggest even a early birth, before her father accession to the throne.

Meritaten has five younger sister : Maketaten, Ankhesenpaaten (Ankhesenamun), Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Neferneferure and Setenpenre. She also has, at least, one half-brother : Tutankhaten (later Tutankhanum).

Around -1333, Meritaten was probably made Great Royal Wife of her father.At this time her mother, Nefertiti, appear to be less and less evolved in politics or officials affairs, maybe due a sickness and later, her death. The fact that the Armana and Hittite letters speak about the quick raising of a “ your daughter Mayati” [Hittite Letters] at the court, seems to show than despit her young age (maybe from 13 to 16 years old) Meritaten was now coregent of her father, great wife and diplomatic representant.

This same period, a epidemic of plague killed successively the queen mother Tiyi, probably Nefertiti, Kiya, the two youngers princesses and maybe Maketaten.In -1338, Akhenate died. Her son, Tutankankhaten is only four or five years old and don’t have any political experience. Meritaten was crowned Pharaon (by choice of the court or by making a Coup is not know), under the name of Ankh-Kepoure, at the place of her younger brother.

We don’t have any concrete proof than she was the Queen asking for a King Hittite as a husband. If it was her, she never married him because that prince (Zanzanna) was murder on the way.More concretly we know than she married a mysterious prince Shemkhkare. He doesn’t live long, her only inscription is unfinished, less than two years.

It is also impossible to say with absolute certitude that he was the father of Merytaten child : Merytaton Tasherit (it not even certain that she was Meritaten child or not)During her short time, Meritaten moved to capital from Amarna to Thebes, the ancient capital before her father decision to move out of Thebes.

Her death in -1336/5 was brutal, resulting of a brief reign of only three years. Her brother Tutankhaten was eignt or nine years old. Only Ankheesenpaaten was definitively still alive at this time among her sisters.

[shortace]

I was trying to pronounce the names of Nefertiti’s daughters, and my own daughter goes to me, “Are you trying to summon a demon?”

Then I wondered what nicknames they might have ended up with, and being Australian, I have decreed:

Meritaten is Mezza Maketaten is Macka Ankhsenpaaten is Anksy Neferneferuaten is Nezza Neferneferure is Nazza Setepenre is Sezza

[diioonysus]

 @darkmarsmafia asked:   

(Nefertiti?

I know she’s not Greek but I see some other type of cultural beings on your page and I’d like to know if you know some interesting things about her? Anything would help! Thank you :) (p.s. I think I was one of her daughters in a past life lol)

Well, starting with her parentage, there is a lot of uncertainly, but historians believe she is the daughter of Ay, who was a native Egyptian from Akhmim and believed to be the power behind Tutankhamun’s throne. This theory could be wrong because there of some evidence that never had Nefertiti call Ay her father, but there’s a cloud of uncertainty on this aspect.

Her marriage date to Akhenaten is also unclear, but they did have six daughters; Meritaten, Meketaten, Ankhesnamun, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Neferneferure, and Setepenre.

Back to Nefertiti, something interesting was that she was born in Thebes, which was Egypt’s capital at the time. Her reign lasted from either 1353–1336 BC or 1351–1334 BC.

A interesting fact is that many scholars believe she was a pharaoh, but nobody’s completely sure. But historians believe she was elevated from the role of Great Royal Wife to co-regent (which basically means that the role of leader is ruled by two people or more) by Akhenaten, her husband, before his death. 

Historic records erase Nefertiti from this position and replace her name with Neferneferuaten, or there is a possibility she disguised herself as a male to rule. More theories, but when she took the throne she tried to place the Ancient Egyptian Religion back in place.

Her death is shrouded by mystery, but there are theories to what might have happened. She basically disappeared from historical record around Year 12. Some say maybe a plague or was disgraced and discredited, but if the information above is true about her changing her name and location of ruling then she was estimated to maybe die around 1331 BC.

Thankfully to the hard work of historians, new information was discovered in 2012, an inscription was found mentions the presence of, “Great Royal Wife, his beloved, mistress of two lands, Neferneferuaten Nefertiti,” what this info is detailing is that Nefertiti was alive for Akhenaten's second to last reign, and means the appearance of Neferneferuaten is placed between death of Akhenaten and the accession of Tutankhamnun, and this results in the statement that Neferneferuaten was either Nefertiti or her daughter Meritaten.

Besides her death, her burial is again mysterious. A French archeologist found two female mummies, “the younger lady,” and “The Elder Lady,” that either could be Nefertiti. Historians have pointed towards, “The Elder Lady,” being Nefertiti because the mummy’s age is around mid-thirties to early forties, which is guessed to be Nefertiti’s death age, but also unfinished busts of Nerfertiti’s face resemble the mummy’s face, but this was proven wrong because “The Elder Lady,” was eventually discovered to be Queen Tiye, mother of Akenaten.

This left “The Younger Lady,” mummy who was now believed to be Nefertiti, but yet again, it was discovered to likely be Tutankhamun's biological mother, and without DNA and the bodies of Nerfertiti’s parents and children unable to be found, it is impossible identify her. 

(sources: Dodson, Aidan and Hilton, Dyan. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2004. 

Dodson, Aidan, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation. The American University in Cairo Press. 2009

https://web.archive.org/web/20131012051415/http://cassian.memphis.edu/history/murnane/M_Gabolde.pdf

http://www.oocities.org/scribelist/do_we_have_.htm (that evidence that was discredited))

[foxpapa]

"Scoperta una nuova regina egizia"

Neferneferure con la sorella maggiore Neferbeferuaton Tasherit (a destra)

Una diarchia tutta al femminile sarebbe stata allestita aspettando che il faraone-bambino Tutankhamon si facesse adulto: "Due donne, e non una, regnarono sull'Egitto nel XIV secolo avanti Cristo". La ricerca pubblicata sul sito dell'Università del Québec di Montreal

L'esistenza di una regina egizia finora sconosciuta e di un'inedita diarchia tutta femminile allestita aspettando che il faraone-bambino Tutankhamon si facesse adulto viene sostenuta da una studiosa dell'Università del Québec a Montréal (Uqam). Una sintesi della ricerca che ha portato all'eclatante scoperta è stata pubblicata sul sito dell'ateneo canadese dove si sottolinea che "due donne, e non una, regnarono sull'Egitto nel XIV secolo avanti Cristo". Da una cinquantina d'anni, viene ricordato sul sito, gli egittologi sapevano che una regina aveva regnato tra la morte del faraone Akhenaton e l'ascesa al trono di suo figlio, l'icona dell'egittologia Tutankhamon, ma erano divisi sull'identità di questa misteriosa sovrana.  Appoggiandosi a "ricerche epigrafiche e iconografiche" ora una storica dell'arte specialista di semeiotica visuale dell'ateneo, Valérie Angenot, afferma che Akhenaton - oltre a sposare la propria figlia Meritaton per prepararla a succedergli - avrebbe in seguito associato al potere un'altra delle sue sei figlie, "Neferneferuaton Tasherit". Le due avrebbero dunque regnato insieme, dopo la morte del padre, per "tre o quattro anni col nome di Neferneferuaton Ankhkheperure", sintetizza ancora il sito spiegando la genesi di un nome che ha "seminato la confusione fra gli egittologi"

[livingforamun]

What is your earliest memory?

I suppose the earliest thing I concretely remember was the birth of my younger sister, Neferneferure. I had just turned four not long before she was born, and I was too young to remember Tasherit’s birth when I was two.

I remember my mother being absolutely huge, she was a slender woman, but tall, so her belly always stuck out a great deal. We were all told to pray for a brother, and when a fifth girl came out mother was extremely upset. Both she and Setepenre weren’t given names with the false god’s name as part of them, which I’ve always thought was a sign my mother was growing frustrated with her prayers to give my father a male heir not being answered.

[egyptology-misr]

Princesses fresco Artifacts from the Amarna palace reveal marked contrast to the stiffness of traditional royal portraits. Two little princesses chat animatedly amid colorful carpets and cushions. Fragment of painting depicting princesses Neferneferuaten and Neferneferure, daughters of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, from Amarna. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, Amarna Period, reign of Akhenaten, ca. 1353-1336 BC. Now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. #egyptology_misr #Egypte #Agypten #Egipt #Egipto #Egitto #Египет #مصر #मिस्र #エジプト #埃及 #Egypten #Visit_Egypt #discover_Egypt #Experience_Egypt #diving  #socialmedia #egypt #iloveegypt #luxor #karnak #mylifesamovie #mylifesatravelmovie #travelblog #travelblogger #solotravel #wanderlust #gopro #egyptology #ancientegypt (at Ashmolean Museum) https://www.instagram.com/p/CE8FDK3lzzl/?igshid=13uaqwcjos1bm

[emthehistorygirl]

Ems: Never-Ending-List-of-Kick-Arse-Women-Throughout-History

                                                  Nefertiti

Stats:

Born: 14th Century

Died: 14th Century

Location: Egypt

Time: 18th Dynasty, New Kingdom, Amarna Period

Parents: Hypothesised to be Ay, mother unknown

Children: Meritaten (m. Smenkhkare), Meketaten, Ankhesenpaaten/Ankhesenamun (m. Tutankhamun), Neferneferuaten Tasheit, Neferneferure, Setepenre

Spouse: Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV)

Achievements: The survival of her name regardless of the attempts to remove her from history, religious and political roles uncommon to women such as the smiting of enemies and the direct worship of a God (all depicted on Amarna Tallatat), depicted as a devoted and involved mother (shown with her husband together with their daughters), icon of beauty and femininity

[dzdjewelry]

👸🏽An Egyptian queen renowned for her beauty, Nefertiti ruled alongside her husband, Pharaoh Akhenaten, during the mid-1300s 🏺🌞👸🏽👑👸🏽B.C. ...Nefertiti, whose name means "a beautiful woman has come," was the queen of Egypt and wife of Pharaoh Akhenaten during the 14th century B.C.Neferneferuaten Nefertiti was an Egyptian queen and the Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh. Nefertiti and her husband were known for a religious revolution, in which they worshiped one god only, Aten, or the sun disc 👸🏽👸🏽🏺👑🌞👸🏽👸🏽👸🏽🌞👑🏺 Born: Thebes, Egypt Died: 1331 BC, Amarna, Egypt Spouse: Akhenaten House: Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt Children: Ankhesenamun, Meritaten, Meketaten, Setepenre, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, Neferneferure Siblings: Mutbenret #egypt #egyptian #nefertiti #herstory #history #education #educateyourself #learning #womeninhistory #queen #blackwomen #blackhistory #strongwoman #followme #likeme (at Rogers Park, Chicago, Illinois)

[tiny-librarian]

The King's Chief Wife, King’s Daughters, and other royal women of Amarna have aroused much interest and controversy. Paradoxically, the controversies concerning these royal women arise in large part because far more information about them has survived than exists for almost all the other queens and princesses of Egypt combined. The writings of scholars attempting to re-create the history of the Amarna Period from this evidence make for fascinating — but sometimes confusing — reading. It is rare for any theory about the royal women to appear in print without two more articles being written to corroborate or contradict it. Thus, what follows is a mere sampling of the academic debate surrounding these dynamic women and their times.

The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt

[tiny-librarian]

This fragment is part of a famous fresco that shows Neferneferure and Neferneferuaten Tasherit, two of the daughters of Akhenaten and Nefertiti.

[tiny-librarian]

Detail of a fragment of a wall painting depicting the family of Akhenaten and Nefertiti, showing their 5th daughter Neferneferure.

Taken by me from the book: Silent Images: Women in Pharaonic Egypt