See also: Ahmès
Ahmosis (or Ahmès 1st, Iâhmes 1st or Ahmosis 1st, Amosis 1st), whose name means “Born Iâh”, lunar god, was the founder of, thus inaugurating the brilliant period called Nouvel Empire. He was king with Thèbes from -1550/49 to -1540, then, after the expulsion of the Hyksôs, Master of the Double Country until his death into -1525/24.
He was the son of Ahhotep, “wife royal and sister of king, girl of king and mother of the Prince ( ity )”. Its bond with Kamosé, its predecessor, is not established with certainty, but the majority of the historians consider that it is about his brother. He would be consequently the son of Séqénenrê Taâ {{II}}. He had like “Grande royal wife” his sister Ahmès-Néfertary, who was the first queen to take up the sacerdotal duty of “Épouse of the god”. Of two wire that one knows to him, the junior, brother and husband of Mérytamon, will succeed to him under the name of Amenhotep {{Ier}}.
Manéthon, in the version transmitted by Flavius Josèphe, calls it Amos or Amosis and allots twenty-five years of reign to him.
One locates his reign at the neighborhoods of -1550/-1549 with -1525/-1524.
Genealogy
Titulature
Reign
During the minority of the king, who was ridden very young person on the throne, the queen-mother Ahhotep seemed to have played a leading role, “it which knows very which knows the things, which binds (?) Egypt, (…) who alleviates the High-Egypt and drives out those which are opposed to it”.
In second half of its reign, Ahmosis included the work of release of the country started with its two predecessors. It conquered initially Memphis, then Héliopolis and Tjarou, and, about year 18 of the reign, put the seat in front of Avaris, the capital of the Hyksôs. After the fall of the city, it besieged Sharouhen, which it took at the end of three years, éradiquant the principal enemy bastion in Palestine.
After the catch of Sharouhen, it guerroya in Nubie, beyond the 2nd cataract, where he subjected the Iountyou Sétyou (litt. Nubian archers). The country was placed under the authority of a viceroy, the “wire royal of Koush” Djéhouty.
After his return of Nubie, the king had to face the rebellion of a “enemy méprisable, Téti-ân was his name. He had joined together around him the underhand ones. Its Majesty killed it and its band was as if it had never existed”.
“Having finally seized the heritage of that which generated it”, it richly equipped the temple with Amon to Karnak. In addition, it replaced the Nomarque S by right-hand men, reopened the turquoise mines just as the alabaster and limestone quarries, and restores the commercial exchanges with Byblos.
At the conclusion of a twenty-five years reign, it left with his son Amenhotep {{Ier}} a prosperous and unified country having found the borders which were them his at the end of the Average Empire.
Burial
A long time after its death, Ahmosis continues to be the subject of an enthusiastic worship. Although the mummy of the Pharaon was found with Dra Abou el-Naga, it is in its cenotaph of Abydos it town of Osiris-, that its admirers maintain his funerary worship. The remainders of a funerary temple and a Pyramide discovered in Abydos were identified in 1902 as being them his in particular by the discovery on the site of a dagger in the name of the king preserved since at Royal Ontario Museum in Canada. The site was excavated again in 1993 within the framework of the Pennsylvania - Yale - New York University Expedition under the direction of Stephen Harvey.
The mummy of Ahmosis, preserved a long time at the museum of Cairo, is currently exposed to the Musée of Louxor in a room especially dedicated to the founders of and S. It was found in 1881 by Gaston Maspero in the “royal hiding-place” of Deir el-Bahari (dB 320 fall ), in which the priest-kings of had put at the plundering shelter , in company in particular of several of its famous descendants. It revealed that it had between thirty-five and forty years with its death.
Stripped its ornemements, like the majority of the royal mummies then discovered, Ahmosis left very many " however; témoignages" in the tombs of his/her parents who allow to imagine easily with which ostentation it was buried. One will quote in particular the elements of a bracelet made up of a cartouche in solid gold framed of two lions lying miniature which decorated the mummy of his/her brother and predecessor Kamosé. Sign times, one also found weapons and jewels with his name in the tomb of his mother Iâhhotep in Dra Abou El-Naggah.
Finally it is advisable to mention a aiguillère in solid gold having probably belonged to its funerary furniture and which was found with Tanis in the tomb of Psousennès {{Ier}}, probable gift of the large priests of Amon to the sovereign tanite, these even which reflect with the shelter of plunderings the momifiée skin of the founder of the glorious one.
Photographs
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