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==Translation of name== There are different interpretations of the meaning of the name Nefertari. Nefertari means 'beautiful companion' and Meritmut means 'Beloved of the goddess [[Mut]]'.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Weigall |first1=Arthur Edward Pearse Brome |title=A Guide to the Antiquities of Upper Egypt: From Abydos to the Sudan Frontier |date=1913 |publisher=Methuen |location=London, UK |page=281 |edition=2 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NbyfAAAAMAAJ |access-date=18 September 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last=Daley |first=Jason |date=6 December 2016 |title=Researchers Identify Queen Nefertari's Mummified Knees |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-identify-queen-nefertaris-mummified-knees-180961301/ |magazine=Smithsonian Magazine |location= |publisher= |access-date=18 September 2022}}</ref> Some sources consider a more accurate translation for Nefertari as "the most beautiful one",<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Martin |first1=Paul |date=March 1999 |title=Into an Antique Land |url=https://www.paulmartinbooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/egypt_march_1999.pdf |magazine=National Geographic Traveler |volume=XVI |issue=2 |pages=105–115 |access-date=5 July 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Kimbell Art Museum: "Queen Nefertari's Egypt" |date=6 December 2020 |url=https://www.worldartfoundations.com/kimbell-art-museum-queen-nefertaris-egypt/ |access-date=5 July 2022 |publisher=World Art Foundations}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Plaksin |first1=Andrey |title=Who was Nefertari? |url=https://www.nefertaritomb.com/person |access-date=5 July 2022 |website=Nefertari's tomb}}</ref> "the most beautiful of them",<ref name="Getty">{{cite book |last1=Bianchi |first1=Robert Steven |last2=McDonald |first2=John K |last3=Bakr |first3=Mohamed Ibrahim |last4=Corzo |first4=Miguel Angel |title=In the tomb of Nefertari : conservation of the wall paintings. |date=1992 |publisher=J. Paul Getty Museum |location=[Malibu, Calif.] |isbn=9780892362295 |page=49}}</ref> "the most beautiful one of them all"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Asante |first1=Molefi Kete |title=The history of Africa : the quest for eternal harmony |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9781135013493 |edition=Second |location=New York |page=43}}</ref> "the most beautiful (one) among them",<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ranke |first1=Hermann |url=http://www.gizapyramids.org/pdf_library/ranke_personennamen_1.pdf |title=Die ägyptischen Personennamen |date=1935 |publisher=Verlag von J. J. Augustin |volume=1 |location=Glückstadt |page=201.16 |language=German |access-date=5 July 2022}}</ref> "the very best",<ref name="Getty"/> or "the most beautiful of the women".<ref>{{cite book |last1=Taterka |first1=Filip |editor1-last=Zadka |editor1-first=Małgorzata |editor2-last=Buczek |editor2-first=Katarzyna |editor3-last=Chruszczewski |editor3-first=Piotr P |editor4-last=Knapik |editor4-first=Aleksandra R |editor5-last=Mianowski |editor5-first=Jacek |title=Antropologia komunikacji od starożytności do współczesności |date=2015 |publisher=Oddział Polskiej Akademii Nauk |volume=VII |location=Wrocław |isbn=9788393420469 |pages=71–89 |url=https://wroclaw.pan.pl/images/pliki/Publikacje/Prace_Komisji_Nauk_Filologicznych_vol.7.pdf#page=72 |access-date=5 July 2022 |language=English |chapter=Ancient Egyptian Royal Cryptography in the Ramesside Period}}</ref>
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