According to the text on a stela of Mery-Mery (Museum of the City of Varaždin, Croatia Inv. No. AO 5279), it seems that Mery-Mery (mry-mry), was an eminent scribe in service of Sitamun, daughter of Amenhotep III. Mery-Mery claims to be the military scribe, of the Lord of theTwo Lands as well as overseer of craftsmen and overseer of the domain of the kings daughter Sitamun. Mery-Mery was an important man in her service. A few monuments have been found connected to Mery-Mery. A stela with his name is kept in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo (Inv. No. 34186), two fragments from the wall of a tomb in the Saqqara Necropolis (Inv. No. K 49, K 50), fragments of the side walls of a tomb in the Saqqara Necropolis (Inv. No. A.P. 6 a and b), shabtis and three statuettes are kept in the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden. Another stela of Mery-Mery is kept in the National Archaeology Museum in Naples. The princess Sitamun ( sAt-imn) was the famous daughter of Amenhotep III. She was born c.1368 B.C. to queen Tiy and is sometimes called Sitama, Sitamon or Satamun. Thereare some indications of a possible conflict between Amenhotep IV (Akhenaten) and Sitamun who, as the kings eldest daughter, was also a potential heiress to the throne. Evidence for this comes from the fact that her name was erased in several places in Egypt and this is also the case with her cartouche on the stela in Varaždin It seems that side walls with Inv. No. A.P. 6 (a and b) are the same side walls fragments as Inv. No. K 49, K 50. Compare PM, vol. III, Saqqara – Necropolis, Oxford 1931., p. 193 with PM, vol. III2 , Saqqara – Necropolis, Oxford 1979., p. 705. It’s also possible that shabtis and statuettes in PM, vol. III, Saqqara – Necropolis, Oxford 1931., p. 193 and PM, vol. III2 , Saqqara – Necropolis, Oxford 1979., p. 705 are the same
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