Meryatum

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Meryatum
High Priest of Ra in Heliopolis
19th Dynasty
PharaohRamesses II
FatherRamesses II
MotherNefertari
BurialKV5
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Meryatum
in hieroglyphs
Era: New Kingdom
(1550–1069 BC)

Meryatum (“Beloved of

High Priest of Re, the son of Pharaoh Ramesses II and Queen Nefertari
.

He is shown as 16th on the processions of princes, and is likely to have been the last child born to Ramesses and Nefertari (after Amun-her-khepeshef, Pareherwenemef, Meritamen, Henuttawy and Meryre).[1] He is depicted in the Smaller Abu Simbel temple, dedicated to Nefertari. Inscriptions at Karnak and elsewhere show Nefertari was his mother.[2]

He visited

Heliopolis
, a position he held for the next twenty years.

Two of his statues are now in

ostrakon mentions work on his tomb and that of Isetnofret; it implies he was buried in the area of the Valley of the Queens, though it is also possible he was buried in KV5, the tomb built for the sons of Ramesses, since a fragment of one of his canopic jars
was found there.

Inscriptions

Meryatum is known from several inscriptions.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ Dodson, Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2004, pp. 167-168, 172.
  2. ^ a b c d e Kitchen, K.A., Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated & Annotated, Translations, Volume II, Blackwell Publishers, 1996
  3. ^ Weeks, K., KV5: A Preliminary Report on the Excavation of the Tomb of the Sons of Ramesses II in the Valley of the Kings.