Karomama Meritmut
Karomama Meritmut was an ancient Libyan high priestess and a God's Wife of Amun during Egypt's Twenty-Second Dynasty. The second “Ma” in her name Karoma represents her tribal name, showing that she belonged to the ruling Ma tribe. The Ma are among the most ancient Libyan tribes, appearing during Egypt’s Old Kingdom, and they were the founders of the Twenty-Second Dynasty under Sheshonq I, who held the title “Great Chief of the Ma” before becoming pharaoh. According to White/European scholars, Ma is abbreviated from Meshwesh, a white Libyan Berber group that appeared around c. 1200 BC as part of the Sea Peoples, alongside groups such as the Rebu and others.
She is possibly identical with Karomama C, a daughter of Pharaoh Osorkon II, who was depicted in the sed-hall of the pharaoh. She followed Henuttawy as high priestess. She is depicted in the Karnak chapel Osiris-Nebankh. A bronze statue of hers, Statue of Karomama, the Divine Adoratrice of Amun, which she received from her overseer of the treasury Ahentefnakht, is now on display at the Louvre; a votive statue of Maat she also received from him, was found in Karnak, a stela of hers, her canopic jars and ushabtis are in Berlin. She was followed as God's Wife by Shepenupet I. Her tomb was found in December 2014 in the area of the Ramesseum at Thebes.