Karomama Meritmut (prenomen: Sitamun Mutemhat) was an ancient Egyptian high priestess, a God's Wife of Amun during the 22nd Dynasty.[1]
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| God's Wife of Amun | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Predecessor | Henuttawy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Successor | Shepenupet I
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| Burial | Shaft tomb in the Ramesseum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dynasty | 22nd Dynasty | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Father | possibly Osorkon II | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
She is possibly identical with Karomama, a daughter of Pharaoh Osorkon II, who was depicted in the sed-hall of the pharaoh. She followed Henuttawy as high priestess. She is depicted in the Karnak chapel Osiris-Nebankh ("Osiris, Lord of Life"). A bronze statue of hers, Statue of Karomama, the Divine Adoratrice of Amun (N 500), which she received from her overseer of the treasury Ahentefnakht,[2] is now on display at the Louvre;[1] a votive statue of Maat she also received from him, was found in Karnak, a stela of hers, her canopic jars and ushabtis are in Berlin.[3] She was followed as God's Wife by Shepenupet I. Her tomb was found in December 2014 in the area of the Ramesseum at Thebes.[4]
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- ^ a b Dodson, Aidan; Hilton, Dyan (2004). The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-05128-3., p.219
- ^ Helen Jacquet-Gordon: A Statuette of Ma'et and the Identity of the Divine Adoratress Karomama, in: ZÄS 94 (1967), 86-93
- ^ Dodson & Hilton, p.220
- ^ Karomama tomb discovered in the Ramesseum temple