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Karomama Meritmut
Statuette of Karomama Meritmut at the Louvre (N 500)
God's Wife of Amun
Predecessor	Henuttawy
Successor	Shepenupet I Royal titulary Prenomen  (Praenomen) Sitamun Mutemhat Nomen Karomama Meritmut short form Karomama
Burial	Shaft tomb in the Ramesseum
Dynasty	22nd Dynasty
Father	possibly Osorkon II

Karomama Meritmut (prenomen: Sitamun Mutemhat) was an ancient Egyptian high priestess, a God's Wife of Amun during the 22nd Dynasty.

She is possibly identical with Karomama, a daughter of Pharaoh Osorkon II, who was depicted in the sed-hall of the pharaoh. She followed Henuttawy as high priestess. She is depicted in the Karnak chapel Osiris-Nebankh ("Osiris, Lord of Life"). A bronze statue of hers, Statue of Karomama, the Divine Adoratrice of Amun (N 500), which she received from her overseer of the treasury Ahentefnakht, is now on display at the Louvre; a votive statue of Maat she also received from him, was found in Karnak, a stela of hers, her canopic jars and ushabtis are in Berlin. She was followed as God's Wife by Shepenupet I. Her tomb was found in December 2014 in the area of the Ramesseum at Thebes.

Sources

1. ^ Dodson, Aidan; Hilton, Dyan (2004). The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. London: Thames & Hudson. ISBN 0-500-05128-3., p.219
2. Helen Jacquet-Gordon: A Statuette of Ma'et and the Identity of the Divine Adoratress Karomama, in: ZÄS 94 (1967), 86-93
3. Dodson & Hilton, p.220
4. Karomama tomb discovered in the Ramesseum temple

• 10th-century BC Egyptian women
• People of the Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt
• 10th-century BC clergy
• Ancient Egyptian priestesses