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Tamar

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Lineage	Idumean
Sex	Female
Full name (at birth)	Meritaten Neferneferuaten ?
Other last names	Tamar Bint Epher
Parents ♂ Akhenaton ? (Effective Spirit of Aten) [18th Dynasty - Egypt] d. -1336 ♀ Nefertiti (the Perfect one has Arrived) ? [18th Dynasty] b. -1370 d. -1330
Wiki-page	wikipedia:Neferneferuaten

Events

child birth: ♂ Anen Menasse (Menassas) The Minotian (The Levirate) [People of the Holy Scriptures]

child birth: ♂ w Ефрем [שבט יוסף]

child birth: ♂ w זרח [אנשי כתבי הקודש]

child birth: ♂ Perez [Judahite]

child birth: ♀ Scota [?]

between -1335 and -1333 title: Pharaoh of Egypt

Notes

Year 3, 3rd month of the Inundation, day 10. The king of Upper and Lower Egypt, lord of the Two Lands, Ankhkheprure--beloved of Aten, son of Re Nefereneferuaten beloved of Waenre (Akhenaten)...Giving praise to Amun, kissing the ground before Onnophris by the wab-priest and scribe of divine offerings of Amun in the temple of Ankhkheprure in Thebes, Pawah, born to Itefseneb.

The epithet 'desired of Waenre' (ie: Akhenaten) in Neferneferuaten's nomen is occasionally replaced with the feminine term "Effective for her husband."

A now-famous letter to the Hittite king Suppiluliuma I from a widowed queen of Egypt, asking for one of his sons as a husband, has been attributed to Neferneferuaten (among others). The royal lineage of Egypt was carried by its women. Marriage to a woman of the royal line was essential for a male pharaoh, even if he came from outside the lineage. Suspicious of this good fortune, Suppiluliumas I first sent a messenger to make inquiries about the truth of the young queen's story. After receiving reports that the situation was as related to Suppiluliuma I, he sent his son, Zannanza, accepting her offer. However, Zannanza got no further than the border before he was killed, according to the Hittite archives. If Ankhesenamun were the queen in question, and his death a strategic murder, it was probably at the orders of either Horemheb or Ay, who both had the opportunity and the motive to kill him.