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Meritamen in hieroglyphs | ||||||||
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Era: New Kingdom (1550–1069 BC) | ||||||||
Meritamen (“Beloved of Amun”) was the name of two princesses during the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, referred to as Meritamen C and Meritamen D by modern historians. Both were the daughters of Pharaoh Thutmose III and his Great Royal Wife Merytre-Hatshepsut.[1] Their name is alternatively spelled Meritamun.