Ahmose Meritamun I.

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Ahmose Meritamun I. in hieroglyphics
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Ahmose Meritamun
(Ah mose merit Amun)
( Jˁḥ ms mrjt Jmn )
The moon- born, loved by Amun

Ahmose Meritamun I was an ancient Egyptian princess of the New Kingdom . She comes from the 17th dynasty and was probably a daughter of Seqenenre and Ahhotep I. Since only the titles of her king's daughter and royal sister have been passed down, her exact assignment is uncertain. According to Jürgen von Beckerath , she had the title of Consort of God and was possibly engaged to the heir to the throne, Ahmose Sapair , who died early . In the recent research it is against it as a minor wife of Kamose and Ahmose I viewed. Her mummy was discovered in the Deir el-Bahari cachette , where she was reburied in a 21st Dynasty coffin . After her death, she was worshiped together with her parents and siblings in the workers' village of Deir el-Medina .

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Mummy of the Meritamun

Meritamun's mummy was discovered in the cachette of Deir el-Bahari (DB 320) in 1881 . It was in the coffin of the asset manager Seniu (Cairo, CG 61010 ) and was unwrapped on June 30, 1886 by Gaston Maspero . A label gives their name and title, but Maspero expressed doubts about the correctness and dated the wrapped mummy to the Middle Kingdom . The anatomist Grafton Elliot Smith was able to prove in 1912 that the mummy can be classified unequivocally in the early 18th dynasty due to the mummification technique . For example, the internal organs were removed from the left side of the body and the body cavity was filled with linen pads soaked in resin . The wrapping of mummy bandages soaked in resin is also typical.

According to the condition of her skeleton, Meritamun died as an older woman. A fall on the back of the head is suspected to be the cause of death, traces of a head injury are still clearly visible on the mummified scalp. Meritamun's arms were not removed until after death, likely by grave robbers looking for prey. The inner shroud contained excerpts from the Egyptian Book of the Dead , which was originally intended for a Gau prince named Mentuhotep. Another inscription calls the "Temple of Courage ", where the original burial place of Meritamun was probably located. Nicholas Reeves situates her grave, however, at Deir el-Bahari, since one 1918-1919 here Uschebti found with the name of Seniu.

The mummy is now in the mummy room in the Egyptian Museum of Cairo ( CG 61052 ).

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  1. ↑ a b Jürgen von Beckerath : Meretamun. In: Wolfgang Helck (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie (LÄ). Volume III, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-447-02100-4 , Sp. 88-89 (Beckerath confuses Ahmose Meritamun I with Ahmose Meritamun II in some places ).
  2. ↑ Alfred Grimm, Sylvia Schoske: In the sign of the moon. Egypt at the beginning of the New Kingdom (=  writings from the Egyptian collection . Volume 7 ). State Collection of Egyptian Art, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-87490-691-4 , p. 45 .
  3. ↑ Nicolas Reeves, Richard H. Wilkinson: The Valley of the Kings. Weltbild, Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-8289-0739-3 , p. 202.
  4. ↑ a b Early Eighteenth Dynasty Mummies from DB320. The Theban Royal Mummy Project, accessed August 2, 2013 .
  5. ↑ Catharine H. Roehrig, Renée Dreyfus, Cathleen A. Keller: Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh . The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 2005; Yale University Press, New Haven 2005, ISBN 0300111398 , p. 38. (further information on Seniu's ushabti)
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SURNAME Ahmose Meritamun I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient egyptian princess
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 16th century BC Chr.