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> Secondly, wasn't there an Ankhesenpaaten
> tasherit?

Yes, that is the presumed name of an infant daughter seen following Ankhsenpaaten at Amarna; there's supposedly a Meritaten-tasherit as well, as daughter of Meritaten. Neferneferuaten-tasherit, OTOH, is a daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti. I think Aldred (1988) talks about these children the most.

> I agree the Egyptian Queen correspondence would
> seem to indicate Ankhesenamun; I wonder though how
> long she lived with Aye.

I doubt very long, as his wife Tiy takes up full residence in Aye's tomb paintings, and there seems little evidence he altered any female images in his tomb to accommodate her image. With the exception of the Newberry ring, there's no other evidence of any union between Aye and Ankhsenamun, and so, the ring has been used to described a marriage between them, though a simple political alliance of sorts is debated these days.

HTH.

Katherine Griffis-Greenberg

Doctoral Candidate
Oriental Institute
Doctoral Programme in Oriental Studies [Egyptology]
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom