What is perhaps one of the most charming and beautiful examples of Amarna art is, sadly, also one of the most damaged. This makes the portion of a mural from the palace recovered by Sir Flanders Petrie all the more invaluable in so much that it shows the entire royal family--Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and all six daughters--enjoying a private moment of domestic bliss. As the painting is dated to Year 9, all six daughters would had to have been born by this time, the youngest of their number still a babe in arms. One tiny hand reaching toward that of Meritaten is all which now attests to the presence of Sotepenre. She was the last of Nefertiti's children and may have been the first to predecease her parents.

She and her sister Neferneferure are both missing from a scene of mourning in which the recently deceased Meketaten is present. Given the high infant mortality rate, it is not unlikely that she died shortly after her appearance at the durbur in Year 12, when she would have been roughly three years of age. Hers would have been a small burial, one whose traces are likewise modest, if not completely unattested.