cannot be proven. The portrayal of Meketaten under a canopy could also be interpreted as the princess being reborn. One theory suggests that one of the scenes depicts Kiya dying while birthing Tutankhaten. A final theory suggests that the child depicted in the scenes is the ka, or soul, of Meketaten. Therefore, the image would symbolically represent the death and rebirth of Meketaten who had now gone to Aten in the afterlife. Death and Burial Meketaten died in approximately Year 14 of Akhenaten's reign. If she did not die in childbirth as discussed above, she most likely died of a plague along with other members of the royal family. Between Years 12 and 15, many members of the royal family disappear from the record and cease to be mentioned again: Queen Mother Tiye, King's Wife Kiya, and the King's Daughters Neferneferure, Setepenre, and Meketaten. Meketaten was likely buried in the Royal Tomb at Akhetaten, where fragments of her sarcophagus were found. Inscriptions upon the fragments mention her parents, her sister Ankhesenpaaten, and her grandparents Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye. While the names in the scene in the chamber denoted have been hacked out, hieroglyphs in chamber identify a portrayal of a dead young woman as Meketaten. In chamber , another scene shows a figure labeled Meketaten standing under a canopy. In front of her, stand Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and their three daughters, Meritaten, Ankhesenpaaten, and Neferneferuaten Tasherit. Several others scenes within the tomb possibly relate to her. In both chambers and , Akhenaten and Nefertiti bend over a woman's inert body. The pharaoh and his Great Royal Wife weep and grip each other's arms for support. Behind them, a nurse cradles a baby in her arms and is accompanied by a fan-bearer, which indicates the baby's royal status. This is the child theorized to be Meketaten's above. References Princesses of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt 14th-century BC Egyptian women Deaths in childbirth Children of Akhenaten Nefertiti