Amenia (18th Dynasty)

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Statue of Amenia

Amenia was the first wife of Haremhab , the later and last ancient Egyptian king of the 18th Dynasty ( New Kingdom ), the successor to Eje II and the predecessor of Ramses I.

She is known from Haremhab's large private grave in Saqqara , where she is mentioned in a column . The funeral paraphernalia of Haremhab's second wife, Mutnedjmet , had also been found here. Amenia died before Haremhab took the throne, presumably during Tutankhamun's first or second year of reign . According to other assumptions, her burial in the tomb in Saqqara was probably carried out during the reign of Eje II . The chamber in which she was buried had been robbed.

Amenia is also attested by a double statue showing her and Haremhab. The statue (EA 36) has been in the British Museum in London since 1837 . However, the assignment was made late. In 1976 an Anglo-Dutch excavation team found the fragment of three embracing hands of a statue in Saqqara. The pair of statues in London is unusual because the woman grips one of her husband's hands with both of her hands. Usually the woman in such depictions only holds the man's with one hand. A plaster cast of the fragment confirmed that it fits the double statue.

literature

  • Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, London 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3 , p. 154.
  • Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. Artemis & Winkler, Zurich 1997, ISBN 3-7608-1102-7 , p. 126.
  • Geoffrey Thorndike Martin: The Hidden Tombs of Memphis: new discoveries from the time of Tutankhamun and Ramesses the Great. Thames & Hudson, London 1992, ISBN 0-500-27666-8 , pp. 91-94.

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personal data
SURNAME Amenia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION first wife of Haremhab
DATE OF BIRTH 14th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 14th century BC Chr.