Meritamen (daughter of Thutmose III)
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Meritamen (“Beloved of Amun”) was a princess of the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt, a daughter of Pharaoh Thutmose III and his Great Royal Wife Merytre-Hatshepsut[1].
She is one of six known children of Thutmose and Merytre; her siblings are Pharaoh Amenhotep II, Prince Menkheperre and princesses Nebetiunet, the second Meritamen and Iset[2]. She is depicted together with her sisters and Menkheperre on a statue of their maternal grandmother Hui (now in the British Museum)[3]. Also depicted in the Hathor chapel built by her father in Deir el-Bahri[4]. She was buried in TT358, under the Northern colonnade of the first terrace of Hatshepsut's funerary temple at Deir el-Bahri.
She inherited the title God's Wife of Amun from her mother. Her additional titles were King's Daughter and King's Sister.[5]
Thutmose and Merytre had a second daughter called Meritamen; she is also depicted on Hui's statue. It is not known which of these princesses is shown on the lap of Benermerut, the Overseer of the Works, on his cubic statue found in Karnak[5].
