List of Principal Characters
The Royal Family (“the House of Thebes”):
AKHENATEN, tenth King and Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty
Nefertiti, his cousin and Chief Wife
Kia, of Mesopotamia, his second wife
Merytaten, daughter of Akhenaten and Nefertiti
Ankhesenpaaten (later Ankhesenamon), another daughter
SMENKHKARA, Akhenaten’s younger brother, eleventh King and Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty; married to Merytaten
TUTANKHATEN (later TUTANKHAMON), Akhenaten’s youngest brother, twelfth King and Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty; married to Ankhesenpaaten
Queen-Princess Sitamon, Akhenaten’s older sister
Queen Tiye, “the Great Wife,” widow of AMONHOTEP III, mother of Sitamon, Akhenaten, Smenkhkara, Tutankhamon
AYE, her brother and father of Nefertiti, successor to Tutankhamon as thirteenth King and Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty
HOREMHEB, his son and successor as fourteenth and last King and Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty
Nahkt-Min, son of Aye and half brother to Horemheb
The Lady Mutnedjmet, daughter of Aye, half sister and later Queen of Horemheb
Others associated with the Court:
The Lady Anser-Wossett, lady in waiting to Queen Nefertiti
Bek, chief sculptor to Akhenaten
Hatsuret, priest of Amon
Ramesses, later RAMESSES I, first King and Pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty
Seti, later SETI I, second King and Pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty
Amonemhet of the village of Hanis, a peasant
Abroad:
Suppiluliumas, King of the Hittites
Gods:
The Aten, Akhenaten’s “Sole God”
Amon, “King of the Gods,” Akhenaten’s chief opponent
Hathor, Sekhmet, Isis, Osiris, Sebek, Hapi, Thoth, Ptah, many others
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