She was the goddess of song and rejoicing, Meret had a main roll in the daiy life of ordinary Egyptians, but she was not officially venerated in the same scale. On her head she usually wore a cluster of plants of lotus flowers. A princess from the Middle Kingdom whose beautiful cache of jewellery was found in her tomb at Dashur in the 1880s, Stories (probably from later times) tell that she represented the eighth hour of the night. |