Ahmose-Sitamun

Satamun (also Ahmose satellite Amun, Sitamun ) was during the early 18th dynasty an ancient Egyptian king's daughter of Ahmose I.

Background

Family and Title

Satamun was the daughter of Ahmose I and sister of Amenhotep I.; they bore the title of king 's sister, Princess, and God's Wife of Amun. The question of her mother is unknown because I. more women come into question Ahmose Nefertari and next to a sister of Meritamun.

Tomb

Satamun could have died early because their mummy of Gaston Maspero was found in a child's coffin in the Deir el- Bahari. However, the mummy satellite Amun were almost all body components, and therefore could not be used on the body dimensions for a reconstruction. The mummy was wrapped in a reed mat in which only the skull and a few bones were located.

It remains unclear whether the nature of the condition of the mummy had to do with her ​​death or until grave robbers, the mummy damaged by looting so. There is also the possibility that the mummy I. (about 1033 BC) was during their subsequent reburial in the eighth year of the reign Psusennes in this state, as Psusennes I could attach an additional entry: Restoration of satellite -Amun (29. Peret III).