Queen Ahmose-Meritamun’s Outer Coffin

A huge, beautifully carved, anthropoid (human-shaped) coffin inscribed for Queen Ahmose-Meritamun, who was the principal wife and sister of Amenhotep I of early 18th Dynasty.

An inscription on the outer shroud stated that her burial had been “examined” on a specific date in year 19 of an unnamed king. Herbert Eustis Winlock eventually identified this king as Pinedjem I, who ruled some 500 years after Ahmose-Meritamun’s death.

Photograph by Harry Burton, 1929. Archives of the Egyptian Expedition, Department of Egyptian Art. From the Tomb of Queen Ahmose-Meritamun (TT358), Deir el-Bahari, West Thebes. The outer coffin now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo. JE 53140