Meritamen

Meritamen
Queen of Egypt Great Royal Wife Mistress of Upper and Lower Egypt King's Daughter
Statue of Meritamen
Born	1280 B.C.E.
Died	1220 B.C.E. Thebes?
Spouse	Pharaoh Ramesses II
Dynasty	19th dynasty
Father	Ramesses II
Mother	Nefertari
Religion	Ancient Egyptian religion

Meritamen in hieroglyphs
Meritamen Mrjt Jmn Beloved of Amun
Daughter and Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Ramesses II

Meritamen was a daughter of Ramses II and his wife Nefertari during the 19th dynasty of Egypt.

Meritamen was a daughter of Ramesses II and one of his wives, Nefertari. She appears as the fourth daughter in the list of daughters in Abu Simbel and had at least four brothers: Amun-her-khepeshef, Pareherwenemef, Meryre and Meryatum, and a sister named Henuttawy.^[1]

When her mother died , Meritamen and her half sister married Ramses II, and they held the title of Great royal wife.^[1]

Meritamen was buried at QV68 tomb in the Valley of the Queens. The tomb of Meritamen was described by Lepsius. An interesting scene in the tomb shows Meritamen offering cloth boxes to Osiris and Hathor. The inscriptions identify the Queen as King's Daughter, Great Royal Wife Lady of Both Lands (Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt) Her coffin is now in Berlin museum (15274).^[2]

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  Statue of Meritamen at Akhmim
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  Statues of Queen Meritamen (right) and her sister Baketmut (left)
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  Stela of Meritamen standing infront of Amenhotep I and his mother Ahmose-Nefertari
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  The White Queen statue from the Ramesseum, Luxor, Egypt, 19th Dynasty
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  Meritamen statue at Zagazig

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Grajetzki, Wolfram: Ancient Egyptian Queens – a hieroglyphic dictionary, London 2005, p. 70
2. ↑ Kitchen, K.A., Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated & Annotated, Translations, Volume II, Blackwell Publishers, 1996

• Grajetzki, Wolfram: Ancient Egyptian Queens – a hieroglyphic dictionary, London 2005, p. 70

• Queen Merytamen