"Unlike other royal houses the 18th dynasty didn't use their princesses for foreign marriage alliances, and it seems always to have been a fairly rare
strategy."
But what then of the Amarna letters concerning such an alliance?
"COuld it be that royal daughters were memorialized on their father's monuments
precisely because they could not expect to marry and be provided with tomb and monuments by
a husband? "
Possibily, but we have to allow that that reason could very well have still been to emphasize the prowess of the father. If there is any generalisation to be made of the era it is the variation of emphasis from the King himself to the KIng as the head of His family.
Whether this was solely due to changes in what they actually believed or simply the more mundane public relation aspects is just more...
warwick
" I have always found that the main obstacle to free
association on these boards is the broad
misconception that what we do not know is more
significant than what we do know."
Warwick L Nixon, March 8, 2019