Karomama Meritmut

Karomama Meritmut (prenomen: Sitamun Mutemhat) was an ancient Egyptian high priestess, a God's Wife of Amun during the 22nd Dynasty.[1]

For other women named Karomama, see Karomama (disambiguation).
Karomama Meritmut
Karomama G
God's Wife of Amun
PredecessorHenuttawy
SuccessorShepenupet I
Prenomen  (Praenomen)
Sitamun Mutemhat
Nomen


Karomama Meritmut

short form



Karomama
Fatherpossibly 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]

Sources
  1. Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, (London: Thames & Hudson, 2004) ISBN 0-500-05128-3, p.219
  2. Helen Jacquet-Gordon: A Statuette of Ma'et and the Identity of the Divine Adoratress Karomama, in: ZÄS 94 (1967), 86-93
  3. Dodson & Hilton, p.220
  4. Karomama tomb discovered in the Ramesseum temple
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