Meryptah was a
High Priest of Amun
The High Priest of Amun or First Prophet of Amun ('' ḥm nṯr tpj n jmn'') was the highest-ranking priest in the priesthood of the ancient Egyptian god Amun. The first high priests of Amun appear in the New Kingdom of Egypt, at the beginning ...
during the time of
Amenhotep III.
He is known from a statue mentioning Meryptah with
Anen
Anen or Aanen was an ancient Egyptian official during the late 18th Dynasty of Egypt.
Biography
He was the son of Yuya and Thuya and the brother of Queen Tiye, the wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep III. Under the rule of his brother-in-law, Anen beca ...
, Amenemhat and
Si-Mut who were a 2nd, 3rd and 4th prophet respectively. Aldred conjectures that Meryptah succeeded
Ptahmose and served until the end of the reign of Amenhotep III. Meryptah would have served from ca. year 20 of Amenhotep's reign until the end of that reign.
Meryptah was granted burial in
Thebes (
Qurna). Some funerary items were recovered from a pit excavated in the early 19th century. Items include:
* A kneeling statue of Meryptah singing a hymn of praise to
Ra
* The
Oriental Institute in Chicago has a statue of Meryptah
* The
Metropolitan Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York City, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the Americas. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 ...
possesses three
stamped mud bricks inscribed for The First Prophet of Amun Meryptah
* A polished boxwood
kohl
Kohl may refer to:
*Kohl (cosmetics), an ancient eye cosmetic
*Kohl (surname), including a list of people with the surname
*Kohl's
Kohl's (stylized in all caps) is an American department store retail chain, operated by Kohl's Corporation. ...
container-(statuette), girl with
youth side lock, carrying oversized pot:
The Durham Servant Girl.
[Reeves, Nicholas, 2000, ''Ancient Egypt, The Great Discoveries, a Year-by-Year Chronicle'', 1816-1818, p. 19.]
References
14th-century BC clergy
Priests of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Theban High Priests of Amun
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