1 gen 1370 anni a. C. - Sitamun, Tiye's daughter

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Sitamun (Sitamen, Satamun), "daughter of Amun" is considered to be the eldest daughter based on the presence of objects found in the tomb of Yuya and Thuya, Queen Tiye's parents, especially a chair bearing her title as the king's daughter.

Her titles include:
Sitamun's chair
Singer of the Lord of the Two Lands
King’s Wife
King’s Great Wife
King’s Daughter
King’s Daughter Whom He Loves
Eldest Daughter of the King
Great Daughter of the King Whom He Loves


Almost nothing is known of her life beyond being the oldest daughter of a powerful (and long-lived) queen.

In the last decade of her father's reign, around Year 30, she married her father was promoted to the status of Great Royal Wife. The evidence for this marriage consists of a blue-faience kohl-tube with the cartouches of Amenhotep III and Sitamun, an alabaster bowl found at Amarna with the same cartouches and jar-label inscriptions from Malkata palace.

Sitamun's elevation to her role as Great Royal Wife of her father, Amenhotep III, is attested as early as Year 30 of his reign from jar label inscription which was discovered in the royal palace.

She maintained her own rooms in the Malkata palace complex, and Amenhotep, son of Hapu was appointed as the steward of her properties here.

She is attested on a Karnak statue of Amenhotep, son of Hapu where she is mentioned as the king's Great Royal Wife. She also appears on a relief from Amenhotep III's mortuary temple, Sitamun is among a handful of figures that appear near the end of the reign of Amenhotep III.

As the eldest daughter of a powerful queen, Sitamun would have been groomed for a political role but never fulfilled this potential, despite having her own property at Malkata and her high position at court. One possibility is that she was married to an heir who never assumed the throne. Another possibility is that she died prematurely or went into seclusion after her brother Akhenaten became king.

She was an aunt of Tutankhamun.

She vanishes at the end of Amenhotep III's reign and is not mentioned during Akhenaten's reign. A separate chamber was carved for her in Amenhotep III's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, but there is no evidence that she was ever buried there.

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