Meritamun

Meritamun in hieroglyphics
	Statue of Meritamun in Achmim

Meritamun was an ancient Egyptian queen and great royal wife of her father Ramses II and the eldest daughter of Nefertari .

Meritamun is known from numerous monuments. She usually appears fourth on her father's lists of princesses. A colossal statue that was found in 1970 and shows it comes from Achmim . This once stood in front of the local Mintempel and lined the entrance with figures of her father of the same size. This testifies to an honor not even given to her mother, Nefertari.

Colossal statue in Akhmim
Luxor , Egypt: Karnak Temple , statue of Meritamun in front of the colossal statue of her father Ramses II.
Statue of Meritamun, excavated in the Ramesseum in Luxor

Probably after the death of her mother, around the 25th year of Ramses II's reign, she was made Great Royal Wife. Her grave is in the Valley of the Queens ( QV68 ). The remains of a large sarcophagus were found there , the lid of which is now in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin .

literature

Heike C. Schmidt, Joachim Willeitner : Nefertari: Wife of Ramses' II (= Zabern's illustrated books on archeology. Vol. 10). von Zabern, Mainz 1994, ISBN 3-8053-1529-5 , pp. 30-32.
Joyce Tyldesley : The Queens of Ancient Egypt. From the early dynasties to the death of Cleopatra. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 2008, ISBN 978-3-7338-0358-2 , p. 157.

personal data
SURNAME	Meritamun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Great Royal Wife of Ramses II, daughter of Ramses II.
DATE OF BIRTH	14th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH	13th century BC Chr.