Tiye was married to Amenhotep III by the second
year of his reign. He had been born of a secondary wife of his
father and needed a stronger tie to the royal lineage. He appears
to have been crowned while still a child, perhaps between the ages
of six to twelve. They had at least six children, one of whom,
Akhenaten, went on to become pharaoh. Tiye's eldest daughter,
Sitamun, also is likely to have married her father, Amenhotep
III, and become entitled,
Royal Great Wife as well. Recent works explain that it was
mostly a symbolical marriage involving many religious and
administrative duties, as it occurs during Tiye's lifetime and,
probably, with her consent. Other than those two, Tiye also gave
birth to Henuttaneb, Nebetiah, Isis, and Thutmosis. A fifth
daughter, Baketaten, is presumed as attributed to Tiye, but the
father still is not confirmed.
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Ahmad Osman:
In my attempt to pursue Freud's theory through the examination of
recent archaeological findings, I came to the conclusion that Moses
was Akhenaten himself. The son of Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye
(daughter of Yuya, whom I have identified as Joseph the patriarch),
Akhenaten had an Egyptian father and an Israelite mother. Yuya had
been appointed by Tuthmosis IV to be the Master of the King's Horses
and Deputy of the Royal Chariotry. On coming to the throne, and
according to Egyptian customs, Amenhotep III married his sister
Sitamun, who was just a child of three years at the time. However,
in his Year 2, Amenhotep decided to also marry Yuya's daughter Tiye,
the girl whom he loved, and made her, rather than Sitamun, his Great Royal
Wife, his queen. (According to Egyptian customs the king could marry as
many women as he desired, however the queen, whose children would follow
him on the throne, had to be his sister, the heiress.)
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Sitamun (also Sitamen, Satamun; (c. 1370
BCE–unknown) was an
Ancient Egyptian princess and queen consort during the
18th dynasty. She is often described as the eldest daughter of
Pharaoh
Amenhotep III and his
Great Royal Wife
Tiye
who was later married to her father by Year 30 of Amenhotep III's
reign, by whom she might have been the mother of
Smenkhkare.[1]
However, it is more likely that Sitamun is Amenhotep III's half
sister. Sitamun was probably the daughter of Thutmose IV and
Iaret.
The suggestion that she was a daughter of Amenhotep and Tiye are the presence of objects found in the tomb of Yuya and Thuya, Queen Tiye's parents.[2] especially a chair bearing her title as king's daughter.[3] BiographySitamun is very well attested in several contexts, most notably in the tomb of Yuya and Thuya where a series of three finely made chairs was discovered. As these chairs were used, and are of progressively larger size, it is assumed they belonged to Sitamun herself as she was growing up. They were then placed in her grandparents' tomb in the tradition of placing objects which had meaning in the deceased's life. She is also depicted on the stele of her nurse Nebetkabeny.[4] 
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, she was promoted to the status of Great Royal Wife. The evidence for this marriage consists of a blue-faiance 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 the latter from jar label inscription No.95 discovered from the royal palace.[5] She maintained her own estate 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 (now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo) where she is mentioned as the king's Great Royal Wife. She also appears on a relief from Amenhotep III's mortuary temple, found by William Matthew Flinders Petrie, currently in Petrie museum.[6] Sitamun is among a handful of figures that appear near the end of the reign of Amenhotep III. This was an era of Egyptian history in which women assumed far more prominent and powerful roles than ever before; Amenhotep III's wife Tiye, Sitamun's mother, is the obvious example. Prior to Tiye's reign, "no previous queen ever figured so prominently in her husband's lifetime."[7] Tiye regularly appeared besides Amenhotep III in statuary, tomb and temple reliefs, and stelae while her name is paired with his on numerous small objects, such as vessels and jewellry, not to mention their large commemorative scarabs.[8] Sitamun herself, as the eldest daughter of a powerful queen would have been groomed for a political role but never fulfilled this potential, despite having her own estate at Malkata and her high position at court. One possibility is that she was married to an heir who never assumed the throne. Another is that she died prematurely or went into seclusion after her brother Akhenaten became king. She vanishes at the end of Amenhotep III's reign and is not mentioned in the reign of the next Pharaoh, Akhenaten. A separate chamber was carved for her in Amenhotep III's tomb in the Valley of the Kings, but there is no evidence she was ever buried there. Titles
References
Significant books on Sitamun:
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