Meritamen (daughter of Thutmose III)

Meritamen (“Beloved of Amun”) was the name of two princesses during the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, referred to as Meritamen C and Meritamen D by modern historians. Both were the daughters of Pharaoh Thutmose III and his Great Royal Wife Merytre-Hatshepsut.[1] Their name is alternatively spelled Meritamun.
Meritamen
in hieroglyphs
One of Thutmose III's daughters named Meritamen with Benermerut. It is unclear if this depiction is of Meritamen C or Meritamen D.

Biography

Meritamen C and Meritamen D were two of six known children of Thutmose and Merytre. Their siblings were Pharaoh Amenhotep II, Prince Menkheperre and princesses Nebetiunet and Iset.[2] They are depicted, together with their sisters and Menkheperre, on a statue of their maternal grandmother Hui (now in the British Museum).[3] Meritamen C is also depicted in the Hathor chapel built by her father in Deir el-Bahri.[4]

Meritamen C inherited the title God's Wife of Amun from her mother. Her additional titles were King's Daughter and King's Sister.[5]

It is not known which of the princesses named Meritamen is shown on the lap of Benermerut, the Overseer of the Works, on his cubic statue found in Karnak.[5]

Sources
  1. Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, (London: Thames & Hudson, 2004) ISBN 0-500-05128-3, pp.133,140
  2. Dodson & Hilton, op.cit., p.133
  3. Dodson & Hilton, op.cit., pp.133,138
  4. Dodson–Hilton, op.cit., pp.133,138,139
  5. Dodson–Hilton, op.cit., p.139
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