Karomama Meritmut
| Karomama Meritmut | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Karomama G | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 Statuette of Karomama Meritmut at the Louvre | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| God's Wife of Amun | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Henuttawy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Shepenupet I | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Father | possibly Osorkon II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Karomama Meritmut (prenomen: Sitamun Mutemhat) was an ancient Egyptian high priestess, a God's Wife of Amun during the 22nd Dynasty.[1]
She is possibly identical with Karomama, a daughter of Pharaoh Osorkon II, who was depicted in the sed-hall of the pharaoh. She followed Henuttawy as high priestess. She is depicted in the Karnak chapel Osiris-Nebankh ("Osiris, Lord of Life"). A bronze statue of hers, which she received from her overseer of the treasury Ahentefnakht,[2] is in the Louvre now;[1] a votive statue of Maat she also received from him, was found in Karnak, a stela of hers, her canopic jars and ushabtis are in Berlin.[3] She was followed as God's Wife by Shepenupet I. Her tomb was found in December 2014 in the area of the Ramesseum at Thebes.[4]
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson (2004) ISBN 0-500-05128-3, p.219
- ↑ Helen Jacquet-Gordon: A Statuette of Ma'et and the Identity of the Divine Adoratress Karomama, in: ZÄS 94 (1967), 86-93
- ↑ Dodson & Hilton, p.220
- ↑ Karomama tomb discovered in the Ramesseum temple