Neferneferuaten

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Ankhkheperure-Merit-Neferkheperure/Waenre/Aten Neferneferuaten (Ancient Egyptian: nfr-nfrw-jtn), or "Neferneferuaten", is the name of a queen regnant ('female king') of ancient Egypt who reigned in her own right near the end of the Amarna Period during the Eighteenth Dynasty. Her name features feminine gender traces, and one of her epithets was Akhet-en-hyes ("Beneficial for her husband") which proves she was a female king. This epithet also features in one version of her nomen (birth name) cartouche. (See Ancient Egyptian royal titulary.) The name Neferneferuaten translates as "Perfect/Beautiful is the perfection/beauty of Aten". There is debate among Egyptologists whether Neferneferuaten is to be identified with Pharaoh Smenkhkare (with whom she shared the throne name Ankhkheperure), or whether they were separate individuals, with Nefertiti, Akhenaten's queen, often proposed as a candidate for her identity.

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