Nefertiti Pendant

Nefertiti was Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV), pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, who reigned 1353 to 1336 BCE. Together they instituted the Amarna religious reform. The worship of a single solar god, the Aten, displacing the older Egyptian polytheism. They built a new capital at Akhetaten (modern Amarna). The reform did not outlast them. Their successor Tutankhamun returned Egypt to the old gods.

The famous painted limestone bust of Nefertiti was found in the workshop of the sculptor Thutmose at Amarna in 1912. It is now in the Neues Museum in Berlin. Her tomb has never been found.

Nefertiti. The beautiful one has come. The Amarna reform. Egyptian queenship. The iconic profile.

Nefertiti's name means "the beautiful one has come". She ruled alongside her husband Akhenaten in the fourteenth century BCE, was elevated to co regent, and may have ruled briefly alone after his death under the name Neferneferuaten.

To wear her profile is to align with one of the very few women in antiquity who held real political power in her own right.

For the long game queens. Nefertiti's reign was a religious revolution. Her husband Akhenaten attempted to remake Egyptian religion around a single sun god. The reform did not survive him. The pendant is for the wearers playing for stakes that may not pay out in their lifetime.

For the profile makers. The Berlin bust of Nefertiti, sculpted around 1340 BCE, is one of the most reproduced female faces in human history. The pendant carries that profile. The long neck, the high cheekbone, the flat topped crown.