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Ahmose-Meritamun (or Ahmose-Merytamon; “Child of the Moon, Beloved of Amun”) was the royal daughter of Ahmose I and Ahmose Nefertari, and became the Great Royal Wife of her brother Amenhotep I, pharaoh of Ancient Egypt in the eighteenth dynasty.
Her remains were discovered at Deir el-Bahri, where she had been rewrapped and reburied by priests who had found her tomb that had been vandalized by robbers. It appears that she died when she was in her early thirties, with evidence of being afflicted with arthritis and scoliosis.
A limestone statue of this queen was discovered by Giovanni Belzoni while he was working in Karnak in 1817.[1]
Her titles were: Great Royal Wife, King's Daughter, King's Sister, and God's Wife.
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Sources
- Grajetzki, Wolfram (2005). Ancient Egyptian Queens—a hieroglyphic dictionary.
- Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3, p.129
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