Karomama Meritmut I.

Karomama Meritmut I. in hieroglyphics
Surname	Karomama Meritmut Karomama merit courage Krmm mrj.t Mw.t Karomama, lover of courage
Statue of Karomama in the Louvre

Karomama Meritmut I. (nickname: Sitamun Mutemhat ) was an ancient Egyptian high priestess of the 22nd Dynasty . She bore the title of a consort of Amun .

Karomama Meritmut I. is best known for a precious bronze statue which the treasurer Ahentefnachte had made for her and which is now in the Louvre in Paris. A votive statue of the goddess Maat from Karnak dedicated to her also comes from Ahentefnachte. Other objects with her name include a stele and a (usurped) private statue that bears its relief image, canopic jugs and ushabti , which are located in Berlin.

Karomama Meritmut is possibly identical to a Karomama, daughter of Osorkon II , who is depicted in the Pharaoh's sed hall . A representation of Meritmut himself can be found in the chapel of Osiris- Nebanch ("Osiris, Lord of Life") in Karnak. Her predecessor in the office of Consort of God was the high priestess Henuttaui from the 21st Dynasty , followed by Schepenupet I.

Her grave was found in December 2014 in the Ramesseum , where an important cemetery had developed in the Third Intermediate Period.

See also

• List of Amun's wives of God

literature

• Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, London 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3 , pp. 212f., 217, 219f.

Web links

Commons : Karomama Meritmut I.  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Berlin, Egyptian Museum, ÄM 2278; see also elmut Brandl: Investigations into private stone sculpture of the Third Intermediate Period: Typology, Iconography, Stylistics. Mensch und Buch Verlag (mbv), Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86664-482-3 , pp. 239-240 (Document U-3.1), plates 134, 184e, fig. 81.
2. ↑ Helen Jacquet-Gordon: A Statuette of Ma'et and the Identity of the Divine Adoratress Karomama. In: Journal for Egyptian Language and Antiquity. (ZÄS) No. 94, Leipzig 1967, pp. 86-93.
3. ^ Karomama tomb discovered in the Ramesseum temple