Thoutmôsis IV

Thoutmôsis V or Djéhoutymès V , wire of Aménotep {{II}} and of the queen Tiâa, was the eighth Pharaon of. Manéthon calls it Thutmosis and allots to him a nine years and eight month reign, which seems to confirm the found documents, whose date does not exceed year 9.

One locates his reign at the neighborhoods of -1401/-1400 with -1390 (Malek, Arnold, Shaw, Grimal, Krauss, Murnane).
Autres opinion of specialists: -1419 with -1386 (Wente), -1419 with -1410 (Redford), -1413 with -1403 (Parker), -1413 with -1405 (Gardiner), -1412 with -1402 (Hornung), -1398 with -1388 (Dodson), -1397 with -1388/-1387 (von Beckerath, Vandersleyen), -1396 with -1386 (Kitchen), -1394 with -1384 (Aldred), -1388 with -1379 (Helck).

He married Néfertary and Iaret, both Grandes royal wives. Of six wire that one knows to him, the elder one will succeed to him under the name of Amenhotep {{III}}. The mother of the heir, Moutemouia, is mentioned in no document of the reign. According to C. Lalouette, it would be a princess mitannienne, girl of Artatama {{Ier}}, which would have adopted the name of Moutemouia, “Mout is in the solar boat”, on its arrival in Egypt. Amenhotep {{III}} will leave his/her mother anonymity by it making represent in particular in the Temple of Louxor, on a relief of the “room of the birth”, where it is approached by the god Amon to design the royal child that Khnoum will work on its potter's wheel.

We are unaware of in which circumstances Thoutmôsis V took possession of the throne. It may be that he became the Master of the Double Country after having drawn aside the legitimate heir. This assumption is based on the stele known as Dream that the king made raise between the legs of the large sphinx. It evokes there a wonder which had arrived to him whereas it was adolescent. After a ride in the area of Memphis, he had calmed down in the shade of the god. During its sleep, Re-Harmachis, the Sphinx itself, appeared to him and asked him to remove the sand which buried it gradually. Then, the god known as: Look at me, throws the eyes on me, O my Thoutmôsis son; I am your father Harmachis-Khépri-Re-Atoum. I will give you my royalty on ground with the head of the alive ones. You will carry the white crown and the red crown on the throne of Geb, the heir. The country will be tien in its length and its width as it on what the eye of the Master of Univers. shines Some saw in this prophecy an attempt on behalf of the king to legitimate a posteriori a capacity which did not return to him from right. However, the promise of the god of Héliopolis necessarily does not mean that Thoutmôsis usurped the throne. Indeed, in a tomb of the necropolis thebaine (TT 64), its Héqarneheh tutor affirms to have informed “the oldest son of the king”. It is not necessary probably to see a fraud there, although it tomb is contemporary reign. Always it is that, in the absence of irrefutable indices, it is impossible for us to cancel with certainty, nor to confirm, a usurpation of the capacity, so much documentation relating to Thoutmôsis V is reduced.

Genealogy

Titulature

The prophecy of the Sphinx

“Thoutmôsis was still an young man, comparable with the child Horus in the marshes of Bouto; its beauty equalized that of protective Horus of his/her father and one saw in him the god himself.

What made its delights, it was to distract itself on the desert plate from Memphis, at its ends Southern and Northern to draw the arrow on a target from copper, to drive out the Lion and the Gazelle, to run on its tank, with horses faster than the Vent, in company of one or other of its servants, but without the knowledge of everyone.

One day among the others, royal prince Thoutmôsis had come to walk per hour of midday, he sat down in the shade of this large god (the large sphinx) and the sleep and the Rêve seized him at the time when the Sun was at its higher point. It noted that the Majesty of this god sacro-saint spoke about his own mouth, as a father who addresses to his son: Look at me, throws the eyes on me, O my Thoutmôsis son; I am your father Harmachis-Khépri-Re-Atoum. I grant my royalty to you on ground, with the head of the alive ones. You will thus carry white crown and red crown on the throne of Geb, the god heir; with you will be the country, in its length and its width, as all it on what the eye of the universal lord spreads his light. You will receive food of the Two Grounds, as well as an abundant tribute of any foreign country, and a lifespan comprising a long time of years…

My Visage is turned towards you, and my heart flies towards you; see the state where I am, and my body painful, me the Master of the plate of Guizeh! The sand of the desert on which I throne advance towards me; also must I hasten to entrust the realization of my wishes to you, because I know that you are my son which will protect me: approaches, see, I am with you, and I am your guide.

Hardly it had completed these words which the royal prince woke up, because it had just heard this speech.

He recognized that they was the words of this god, and he kept silence in his Cœur. ”.

Reign

During its nine years of reign, Thoutmôsis V could benefit from peace and stability which its predecessors had ensured Egypt. It is not excluded however that it conducted campaign in Galileo, but its marriage with a girl of Artatama Ier put an end to the confrontations which had opposed its predecessors to the Mitanni. In year 8, he undertook a “victory campaign” in Nubie, undoubtedly a simple punitive forwarding in the “country of Wȝwȝt ”. As under its predecessors, the administration of the “countries of the South” was entrusted to a “royal Fils of Koush”, title prestigious which will not cease being employed until the end of the Nouvel Empire.

Some sites, very few, carry testimony of its architectural activity. In the temple of Karnak, it finished the unfinished Obélisque of Thoutmôsis {{III}}, today Saint-Jean-of-Lateran place in Rome. To Amada, he added a hypostyle room to the temple dedicated to Amon - Re and to Re Horakhty, whose Thoutmôsis had initiated construction. One also found traces of his activity with Giza, Memphis and Abydos.

It made build its funerary temple in the south-west of that of his father, well off sound Hypogée of the Vallée of the Kings (Kv 43). Its mummy was discovered in 1898 in the tomb of Amenhotep {{II}} (Kv 35).

Burial

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