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Merit Aten is one of the beauties of Upper Egypt. His daughter, Nefertiti, who surpassed her mother in beauty.
Nefertiti gave birth to her first daughter in the second year of her marriage to Akhenaten and named her Merit Amun, meaning the lover of Amun
When Akhenaten moved to his new religion and his capital in Tel el-Amarna, its name was changed to Merit Aten, meaning the beloved of Aten.
Nefertiti gave birth to five other daughters in the new capital
Then one of their daughters, Miket Aton, died
Nefertiti grieved for her close daughter, then Nefertiti disappeared from the royal court and was replaced by her daughter, Meritaten, and she received the title of the Great Royal Wife after her marriage to Semenkhkare, who took over after Akhenaten.
Among the most famous of what was reported about her is a letter that Merit Aten sent to her husband and her lover in the battlefield in defense of the homeland, overflowing with the most tender words and the sweetest phrases, saying:
I will be waiting for you.. always waiting for you.. your waiting is the hope with which I live and live for it.
