Egyptian Dreams

Sobek · Scribe Joined: 26 Feb 2010 Posts: 113 Location: Maine, USA

Whose face is on the canopic coffinettes from KV62?

anneke · Queen of Egypt Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 9305

Allen attributes the canopic coffins to Pharaoh Neferneferuaten see footnote 66 in:
http://history.memphis.edu/murnane/Allen.pdf

Sobek · Scribe Joined: 26 Feb 2010 Posts: 113 Location: Maine, USA

King Neferneferuaten is probably Nefertiti, Meritaten, or Neferneferuaten (daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti). So which one does the face on the coffinettes look like?

anneke · Queen of Egypt Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 9305

Considering how different each was depicted in different works I would say we really do not know what Nefertiti, Meritaten or Neferneferuaten looked like.

Meritaten is depicted like this:

and like this:

and maybe even like this

Doesn't really paint on coherent picture to me.

And I don't think we have a whole lot of images of Neferneferuaten-tasherit. Definitely not at a slightly older age?