... year 13 of Akhenaten's reign. This date is based in part on her disappearance from the scene in official portraits and on monuments shortly after the year 12 durbar (Aldred, 1988). However, another aspect of this mourning scene has confused and disturbed scholars for many years: the depiction of a royal baby in the ... arms of a nurse standing on the edge of the scene, attended by a fan-bearer. Aldred and others interpret this to mean that Meketaten had died in childbirth at the age of twelve ... possibly by Akhenaten (Aldred, 1988). It is possible, however, that the baby, whose identif...

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