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Other Egyptian royal ladies called Meritamen include a sister-wife of Amenhotep I and a daughter of Thutmose III
Meritamen (also spelled
Meritamun, Merytamen, Merytamun, Meryt-Amen;
Ancient Egyptian:
Beloved of Amun) was a daughter and later
Great Royal Wife of
Pharaoh Ramesses the Great.
Meritamen was the fourth daughter of Ramesses and possibly the third of his favourite wife
Nefertari. It is likely that she was the eldest of Nefertari's daughters to survive childhood. After her mother died (around the 24th or 25th regnal year), Meritamen became Great Royal Wife, along with her half-sister
Bintanath.
Meritamen was a singer of
Amun, priestess of
Hathor, sistrum-player of
Mut and a dancer of
Horus, and held several titles including
Magnificent in the Palace; the Beloved of the Lord of the Two Lands; The One Who Fills the Forecourt with the Scent of Her Fragrance; Superior of the Harem of Amun-Ra and
She Who Stands by Her Master like Sothis is Beside Orion.
She is mostly known for her beautiful
limestone statue, the
White Queen found at the
Ramesseum, the temple complex her father had built. She also appears on the walls of temple of
Abu Simbel, along with other family members.
Meritamen was buried at
QV68 in the
Valley of the Queens.
Meritamen appears in the historical fiction novel
Pharaoh's Daughter by Julius Lester as one of the main characters. Spelled "Meryetamun", she's the princess that saves Moses from the Nile and brings him up as her son. Later, she changes her Egyptian name to the Hebrew name Batya (daughter of God) as she adapts her way of life to fit in with Hebrew culture.
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