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Beautiful princess Merit Amon


? Who is this beautiful woman

And it always stands next to its king, Ramses II, just as the North Star is adjacent to Gemini

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Sistrum sistrum player for the gods is death. And the harem player to the goddess "Hathor, singer for the rest of the gods" .. This is what came in the book "Encyclopedia of Pharaonic Regions (Qena - Sohag) about the written Pharaonic inscriptions.

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Definition: Merit Amon is the fourth daughter of the famous King Ramses II and his wife Queen Nefertari, and Meret Amun became the queen after the death of her mother, where her father, King Ramses II married her, and she held the title of the royal wife and was also a priestess of the goddess Hathor, and she undertook the rituals of her, and her name came Merit Amun meaning beloved Amon.

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The statue of Meritamun is one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Akhmim

The statue was found in 1981, and it is the longest statue of an Egyptian crowned queen in Egyptian history, and the statue is classified as a model of ancient Egyptian art in accuracy, color and design


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The statue of Queen Merit Amun is made of bright limestone, and is considered the largest statue of a Pharaonic wife in all Pharaonic history. The statue is 12 meters high and weighs 31 tons. The temple also includes next to the princess’s statue two other statues of Ramses II. It is possible that the gods (Venus), goddess of love and beauty for the Romans in the past, also the temple includes columns and remnants of walls and 4 wells with water all dating back to the Roman era















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When you look at the statue, you find that the head of Princess

 Merit Amun is above the head of a circular base surrounded by a frieze of snakes crowned with beautiful sun disks. Yellow beads imitate gold and bracelets, as well as roses decorating the Queen's chest

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And the queen held a manat necklace in her hand, which was one of several branches of beads, and also Merit Amun, the queen, was a priestess and carried out her own rituals, and as indicated by her titles as a musician of death and the prohibitions of Hathor as well

It is truly the beautiful woman Merit Amon 

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