Meryptah was a

High Priest of Amun The High Priest of Amun or First Prophet of Amun ('' ḥm nṯr tpj n jmn'') was the highest-ranking priest in the priesthood of the ancient Egyptian god Amun. The first high priests of Amun appear in the New Kingdom of Egypt, at the beginnin ...

during the time of

Amenhotep III Amenhotep III ( , ; "Amun is satisfied"), also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent or Amenhotep the Great and Hellenization, Hellenized as Amenophis III, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, Eighteenth Dynasty. According to d ...

. He is known from a statue mentioning Meryptah with

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, Amenemhat and Si-Mut who were a 2nd, 3rd and 4th prophet respectively. Aldred conjectures that Meryptah succeeded Ptahmose and served until the end of the reign of Amenhotep III. Meryptah would have served from ca. year 20 of Amenhotep's reign until the end of that reign. Meryptah was granted burial in Thebes ( Qurna). Some funerary items were recovered from a pit excavated in the early 19th century. Items include: * A kneeling statue of Meryptah singing a hymn of praise to Ra * The Oriental Institute in Chicago has a statue of Meryptah * The

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possesses three stamped mud bricks inscribed for The First Prophet of Amun Meryptah * A polished boxwood

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container-(statuette), girl with

youth side lock The sidelock of youth (also called a Horus lock, Prince's lock, Princess' lock, lock of childhood or side braid) was an identifying characteristic of the child in Ancient Egypt. It symbolically indicates that the wearer is a legitimate heir of O ...

, carrying oversized pot: The Durham Servant Girl.Reeves, Nicholas, 2000, ''Ancient Egypt, The Great Discoveries, a Year-by-Year Chronicle'', 1816-1818, p. 19.

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14th-century BC clergy Priests of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt Theban high priests of Amun {{AncientEgypt-bio-stub