COMPANION

Meritamen

1400 BC - 1300 BC

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Meritamen (also spelled Meritamun, Merytamen, Merytamun, Meryt-Amen; ancient Egyptian: Beloved of Amun) was a daughter and later Great Royal Wife of Pharaoh Ramesses the Great. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Meritamen has received more than 265,979 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Meritamen is the 235th most popular companion (down from 181st in 2019), the 169th most popular biography from Egypt (down from 136th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Egyptian Companion.

Meritamen is most famous for the "Egyptian Book of the Dead."

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 62.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.82

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Meritamen by language

Over the past year Meritamen has had the most page views in the with 37,678 views, followed by Arabic (17,933), and Spanish (15,571). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Basque (34.10%), Catalan (24.20%), and Arabic (21.63%)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Meritamen ranks 235 out of 784Before her are Sophia Dorothea of Celle, Sigrid the Haughty, Catherine Opalińska, Joseph Ferdinand of Bavaria, Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen, and Mary of Hungary, Queen of Naples. After her are Amélie of Leuchtenberg, Princess Clémentine of Orléans, Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, Mariam-uz-Zamani, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, and Frederica of Baden.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1400 BC, Meritamen ranks 9Before her are Smenkhkare, Meritaten, Jethro, Kiya, Shalmaneser I, and Muršili II. After her are Adad-nirari I, Fu Hao, Piyassili, Ashur-uballit I, Neferneferuaten Tasherit, and Xiao Yi of Shang. Among people deceased in 1300 BC, Meritamen ranks 5Before her are Ḫattušili III, Shalmaneser I, Muršili II, and Muwatalli II. After her are Tukulti-Ninurta I, Bintanath, Fu Hao, Amun-her-khepeshef, Tudḫaliya IV, Henutmire, and Puduḫepa.

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In Egypt

Among people born in Egypt, Meritamen ranks 169 out of 642Before her are Smendes (-1200), Intef II (-2150), Faten Hamama (1931), Nazli Sabri (1894), Ahmed Zewail (1946), and Fuad II of Egypt (1952). After her are As-Salih Ayyub (1205), Djedkare Isesi (-2500), Hussein Kamel of Egypt (1853), Abbas II of Egypt (1874), Ashraf Marwan (1944), and Hetepheres I (-2700).

Among COMPANIONS In Egypt

Among companions born in Egypt, Meritamen ranks 7Before her are Nefertiti (-1400), Nefertari (-1290), Ankhesenamun (-1347), Fawzia Fuad of Egypt (1921), Arsinoe II (-316), and Nazli Sabri (1894). After her are Farida of Egypt (1921), Bintanath (-1300), Alia Al-Hussein (1948), Suzanne Mubarak (1941), Meketaten (-1348), and Tjuyu (-1401).