Aidan Dodson
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And if we are putting those together, it would make sense that if the king is looking for a bride, a cousin from this military family in Achim would make a lot of sense.
So therefore, I think while the leading theories, and this has been for about the last hundred years, is the idea that Nefertiti is a daughter of Ai and probably, therefore, a cousin of Akhenaten.
Right.
Well, it looks as though they marry after Akhenaten becomes king because the very, very earliest... He's a bachelor.
Yeah.
The very, very earliest records of him... He turns out with his mum in inscriptions, doesn't he?
But then we have, it looks as though they probably marry within the first year or so of the reign.
And they have their first daughter by year two of the reign.
So it looks as though fairly soon after his accession, that is when the two of them get married.
There's a good question here about what that might have looked like, because we don't know anything about marriage in ancient Egypt per se.
Where we have got records of marriage, and it tends to be in the private sphere, there's no indication of any kind of religious or anything out of ceremonies.
It all seems to have been a contractual link, because the word to marry, in fact, is to get to move in with.
And then what you might well then get is some kind of agreement over money, almost a prenup, almost, is what we sort of find there.
In the royal sphere, we have absolutely nothing whatsoever.
The only reason we know that the kings and various queens are marrying each other is because there they are in the text with the title of king's wife or king's great wife.
So quite what that would all entail remains completely obscure.
Okay, she was certainly not...
An Egyptian princess.
She never has the title of king's sister or king's daughter, which would be de rigueur in this kind of situation.
And we have a long, long list of her titles, and those certainly aren't amongst them.
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