Kamosé

Last representing of Thèbes, Kamosé will try in its turn the reconquest of the Low-Egypt (Egypt of north). Manéthon calls it Kamose or Kames or Kamosis . He is the son of Séqénenrê Taâ {{II}}.

One locates his reign at the neighborhoods of -1553 with -1550/-1549. Kamosé marries Ahhotep (or Ahotep). Its tomb is in Dra Abou El-Naggah.

Genealogy

Titulature

Reign

During the year of its reign, it takes again the offensive stopped brutally under Séqénenrê Taâ. It attacks and destroys the southern garrison of the Hyksôs and removes Nefrusy, city in the north of Cusaé (today Assiout). Then it carries out its army in the vicinity of the town of Avaris, capital of the occupants.

It does not succeed in however taking the city, defended by mercenaries Nubiens, Medjams. The Egyptian troops devastated the fields, the cultures and the villages around. Threatened on its backs by the king of Kouch Nedjeh, combined with the Hyksôs, it turns back. It nevertheless takes again with the Hyksôs all the Average-Egypt until the Fayoum.

Its successor and brother, Ahmose, completed his work (see).

Burial

The tomb of Kamosé was identified in 1857 at the time of the excavation campaign which ordered the viceroy Saïd Pasha with Auguste Mariette for the account of Napoleon {{III}}.

Probably plundered in antiquity, the sarcophagus of Kamosé was nevertheless intact overdraft in a fill of the necropolis of Dra Abou El-Naggah. Of style richi, it represents the king wearing the beard false, capped Némès and the bust covered by broad a collar ousekh . It since is exposed to the museum of Cairo.

To the opening of the sarcophagus, the very damaged mummy fell at once in dust. At the time of its discovery, hunting for antiquities and in particular for the invaluable objects prevailed on the archaeological excavations and the museography, then stammering. Thus the objects that it contained and which formed the ultimate funerary money of the sovereign were given in present by the viceroy to the French monarch. Mariette made gift of the bronze mirror to the Musée of Louvre and them weapons and jewels of Kamosé were acquired by various museums following the dispersion of the imperial collection shortly after the Défaite of Sedan.

One will quote in particular the axes out of bronze, bearing on their blades the cartouches of the king, which are currently with the British Museum and the Ashmolean Museum of Oxford in England. This last museum also acquired a dagger bronzes some with the handle out of wooden covered with a gold sheet. The Louvre as for him became purchaser of the royal gold cartouche framed by two lions lying which bears the name of Ahmosis, while a famous dagger in the name of Kamosé, with bronze blade and the handle silver and gilded wooden was found exposed after some peregrinations of collectors to the museum of the Royal Library of Brussels.

The beetle of heart and the amulets prophylactic which covered the mummy of the king on the other hand were lost, undoubtedly acquired by private collectors. They never reappeared on the market of Antiquities since.

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