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Meritamen
in hieroglyphs

Era: New Kingdom
(1550–1069 BC)

One of Thutmose III's daughters named Meritamen with Benermerut. It is unclear if this depiction is of Meritamen C or Meritamen D.

Meritamen (“Beloved of Amun”) was the name of two princesses during the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, referred to as Meritamen C and Meritamen D by modern historians. Both were the daughters of Pharaoh Thutmose III and his Great Royal Wife Merytre-Hatshepsut.^[1] Their name is alternatively spelled Meritamun.

Biography

Meritamen C and Meritamen D were two of six known children of Thutmose and Merytre. Their siblings were Pharaoh Amenhotep II, Prince Menkheperre and princesses Nebetiunet and Iset.^[2] They are depicted, together with their sisters and Menkheperre, on a statue of their maternal grandmother Hui (now in the British Museum).^[3] Meritamen C is also depicted in the Hathor chapel built by her father in Deir el-Bahri.^[4]

Meritamen C inherited the title God's Wife of Amun from her mother. Her additional titles were King's Daughter and King's Sister.^[5]

It is not known which of the princesses named Meritamen is shown on the lap of Benermerut, the Overseer of the Works, on his cubic statue found in Karnak.^[5]

Sources

^ Dodson, Aidan; Hilton, Dyan (2004). The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-05128-3., pp.133,140
^ Dodson & Hilton, op.cit., p.133
^ Dodson & Hilton, op.cit., pp.133,138
^ Dodson–Hilton, op.cit., pp.133,138,139
^ ^a ^b Dodson–Hilton, op.cit., p.139

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