Ahmose-Meritamun
Ahmose-Meritamun (or Ahmose-Meritamon) was a Queen of Egypt during the early Eighteenth Dynasty. She was both the older sister and the wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep I. She died fairly young and was buried in tomb TT358 in Deir el-Bahari.
Key facts
- Royalty.name
- Ahmose-Meritamun
- Royalty.image
- FragmentaryBustOfAhmesMerytamun-August19-08.jpg
- Royalty.image_size
- 190px
- Royalty.alt
- Ahmose-Meritamun's statue
- Royalty.caption
- Fragmentary colossal bust of Ahmose-Meritamon, wearing a wig fashioned after a style associated with Hathor - British Museum
- Royalty.burial_place
- TT358 in Thebes
- Royalty.spouse
- Amenhotep I
- Royalty.dynasty
- 18th of Egypt
- Royalty.father
- Ahmose I
- Royalty.mother
- Ahmose-Nefertari
- Royalty.religion
- Ancient Egyptian religion
- Hieroglyphs.name
- iaH:ms-i-mn:n-mr-i-i-t
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Ahmose-Meritamun (or Ahmose-Meritamon) was a Queen of Egypt during the early Eighteenth Dynasty. She was both the older sister and the wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep I. She died fairly young and was buried in tomb TT358 in Deir el-Bahari.
== Biography == Ahmose-Meritamun was the royal daughter of Ahmose I and Ahmose Nefertari, and became the Great Royal Wife of her younger brother Amenhotep I, pharaoh of Ancient Egypt in the Eighteenth Dynasty.