Aidan Dodson
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first heard May 2026
last heard 3 Jun
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Right.
We know for a fact that she was a woman married to Akhenaten and had six daughters.
end that is all we know for absolutely certain everything else which we think we know about her is got to be inferred or implied from others from indirect sources and part of that comes from what who her parents were it's like there is no no text which tells us who her parents were
We can be sure who her parents weren't.
They weren't a king and queen, because nowhere does she ever hold the title of king's daughter or king's sister, which would have been the case had she been potentially a sibling spouse of Akhenaten.
And she has probably the most extensive set of titles we've got of queen of this kind of era.
So if she were indeed a king's daughter or king's sister, one would find it somewhere.
So we can rule that out as a possibility.
The probably dominant theory has been that she is actually a maternal cousin of Akhenaten.
Because we have a man at court at this period called I, who has the title of God's father.
And we know that that title can imply king's father-in-law.
Indeed, Queen T, who is the mother of Akhenaten, her father is called God's father as well.
So that tends to suggest that I may well be that.
Also, there may be a closer link here as well, and it's possible that Ai is a brother of Queen Ti.
Yeah.
Akhenaten and Nefertiti are cousins, effectively.
And that idea is put together for a couple of reasons.
First, the I, the name, is quite an unusual one, and is very similar to that of Queen T's father, Yuya.
Also, they both have close relationships with the city of Achmim in southern Egypt, which is a fairly provincial kind of location.
But Yuya certainly comes from there, that's Queen Ti's father, and when he becomes king later on, Ai builds temples at Achmim, all of which rather suggest that it may well be part of his hometown in many ways.
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