page_title: Ahmose-Meritamun
section_title: Death and burial
hierarchical_section_title: Ahmose-Meritamun / Death and burial
caption_attribution_description: English: This is the inner coffin of Ahmose-Meritamun who was the chief queen of pharaoh Amenhotep I during the early 18th dynasty period of Egypt's New Kingdom. It was found at Deir el-Bahri in Thebes and is made of cedar. The coffin is part of the permanent collection of the Cairo Museum (JE 53141). Queen Ahmose-Meritamun's official tomb is designated as TT358 where this coffin was found but it was stripped of its gilded gold and semi-precious stones in antiquity. This photo was taken at the King Tut exhibition at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Washington State, USA.
context_page_description: Ahmose-Meritamun was a Queen of Egypt during the early Eighteenth Dynasty. She was both the older sister and the wife of Pharaoh Amenhotep I. She died fairly young and was buried in tomb TT358 in Deir el-Bahari.
context_section_description: Her remains were discovered at Deir el-Bahri in TT358 in 1930 by Herbert Eustis Winlock. Her mummy was found in two cedarwood coffins and a cartonage outer case. Her mummy had been rewrapped and reburied by priests who had found her tomb that had been vandalized by robbers. It appears that she died when she was relatively young, with evidence of being afflicted with arthritis and scoliosis.
  The outer coffin (now in the Egyptian Museum, JE 53140) is over 10 ft in size and is made from cedar planks which are joined and carved to a uniform thickness throughout the coffin. The eyes and eyebrows are inlaid with glass. The body is carefully carved with chevrons painted in blue to create the illusion of feathers. The coffin was covered in gold which had been stripped in antiquity. The inner coffin was smaller, but still over 6 ft tall. The inner coffin had also been covered in gold but stripped of this precious metal. The mummy had been carefully rewrapped during the reign of Pinedjem I. Inscriptions record that the linen used in the reburial was made in year 18 of Pinedjem by the High Priest of Amun Masaharta, son of Pinedjem I. The reburial took place in year 19, month 3 of the winter, day 28.
caption: Ahmose-Meritamun's inner coffin.
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