Ahmose-Meritamon

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Ahmose-Meritamun in hieroglyphs

Ahmose-Meritamun (or Ahmose-Merytamon; “Child of the Moon, Beloved of Amun”) the daughter of Ahmose I and Ahmose Nefertari, became the Great Royal Wife of her brother Amenhotep I, pharaoh of Egypt in the 18th Dynasty. Her remains were discovered at Deir el-Bahri, where she had been rewrapped and reburied by priests that had found her tomb violated by robbers. It appeared that she had died when she was in her early thirties, with evidence of being affected by arthritis and scoliosis.

A limestone statue of the queen was discovered by Giovanni Belzoni while he was working in Karnak in 1817.^[1]

Her titles were: Great Royal Wife; King's Daughter; King's Sister; God's Wife.

[edit] See also

• Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt Family Tree

[edit] Notes

1. ^ "Upper part of a limestone statue of Queen Ahmose-Merytamun," The British Museum Web site.

[edit] Sources

• Grajetzki, Wolfram (2005). Ancient Egyptian Queens—a hieroglyphic dictionary.
• Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3, p.129