page_title: Neferneferuaten
section_title: Reuse of Neferneferuaten's funerary equipment for Tutankhamun's burial
hierarchical_section_title: Neferneferuaten / Reuse of Neferneferuaten's funerary equipment for Tutankhamun's burial
caption_attribution_description: This is a lid for a canopic jar container in the shape of Tutankhamun's head. This 14th century BCE object was found in this young pharaoh's intact KV62 tomb from the 18th Dynasty of Egypt's New Kingdom and today forms part of the permanent collection of the Cairo Museum of Egypt. From the King Tut Exhibit at Seattle's Pacific Science Center
context_page_description: Ankhkheperure-mery-Neferkheperure/ -mery-Waenre/ -mery-Aten Neferneferuaten was a name used to refer to either Meritaten or, more likely, Nefertiti.
  The archaeological evidence relates to a woman who reigned as pharaoh toward the end of the Amarna Period during the Eighteenth Dynasty. Her sex is confirmed by feminine traces occasionally found in the name and by the epithet Akhet-en-hyes, incorporated into one version of her second cartouche.
  She is to be distinguished from the king who used the name Ankhkheperure Smenkhkare-Djeser Kheperu, but without epithets appearing in either cartouche.
  If this person is Nefertiti ruling as sole pharaoh, it has been theorized by Egyptologist and Archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass that her reign was marked by the fall of Amarna and relocation of the capital back to the traditional city of Thebes.
context_section_description: According to Nicholas Reeves, almost 80% of Tutankhamun's burial equipment was derived from Neferneferuaten's original funerary goods, including his famous gold mask, middle coffin, canopic coffinettes, several of the gilded shrine panels, the shabti-figures, the boxes and chests, the royal jewelry, etc. In 2015, Reeves published evidence showing that an earlier cartouche on Tutankhamun's famous gold mask read, "Ankheperure mery-Neferkheperure" or (Ankheperure beloved of Akhenaten); therefore, the mask originally was made for Nefertiti, Akhenaten's chief queen, who used the royal name Ankheperure when she assumed the throne after her husband's death.
  This development implies that either Neferneferuaten was deposed in a struggle for power, possibly deprived of a royal burial—and buried as a queen—or that she was buried with a different set of king's funerary equipment—possibly Akhenaten's own funerary equipment—by Tutankhamun's officials since Tutankhamun succeeded her as king.
caption: Many of the Canopic Jars of Tutankhamun have distinctively female features; many scholars argue they originally were meant for a female pharaoh and repurposed for Tutankhamun.[80]
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