Amosis, according to Manetho,[1] also Amasis,[2] Aahmes
A fragmentary statue of Ahmose I, Metropolitan Museum of Art[3]
Pharaoh
Reign
c. 25 years in the mid 16th century BC[note 1] (Egyptian chronology) (disputed) 25 years and 4 months in Manetho
Predecessor
Kamose (Upper Egypt) Khamudi (Lower Egypt)
Successor
Amenhotep I
Royal titulary
Horus name
Aa kheperu ꜤꜢ-ḫprw Great of manifestations[22] Great of Developments[23]
Nebty name
Tut mesut Twt mswt Perfect of Birth[23] The (very) image of (re-)birth[22]
Golden Horus
Tjez tawy Ṯs tꜢwy He who knots together the Two Lands[23]
Prenomen (Praenomen)
Neb pehty re Nb pḥty rꜤ The Lord of Strength is Re[4]
Nomen
Iah mes(u) IꜤḥ ms(w) Iah (the moon god) is born (Ahmose)[4][22]
Consort
Ahmose-Nefertari, God's Wife of Amun, Ahmose-Sitkamose, Ahmose-Henuttamehu, Kasmut, Thenthapi
Children
Ahmose-Meritamun Ahmose-Sitamun Siamun Ahmose-ankh Amenhotep I Ramose Mutnofret
Father
Seqenenre Tao
Mother
Ahhotep I
Died
c. 1525 BC
Burial
Mummy found in the Deir el-Bahri royal cache, but was likely originally buried in Abydos or Dra' Abu el-Naga'
Monuments
Palace at Avaris, Temple of Amun at Karnak, Temple of Montu at Hermonthis
Dynasty
18th Dynasty
Ahmose I (sometimes written as Amosis or Aahmes, meaning "Iah (the Moon) is born"[24]) was a pharaoh and founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt, classified as the first dynasty of the New Kingdom of Egypt, the era in which ancient Egypt achieved the peak of its power. He was a member of the Theban royal house, the son of pharaoh Seqenenre Tao and brother of the last pharaoh of the Seventeenth Dynasty, Kamose. During the reign of his father or grandfather, Thebes rebelled against the Hyksos, the rulers of Lower Egypt. When he was seven years old, his father was killed,[25] and he was about ten when his brother died of unknown causes after reigning only three years. Ahmose I assumed the throne after the death of his brother,[26] and upon coronation became known as Nebpehtyre, nb-pḥtj-rꜥ "The Lord of Strength is Ra".
During his reign, Ahmose completed the conquest and expulsion of the Hyksos from the Nile Delta, restored Theban rule over the whole of Egypt and successfully reasserted Egyptian power in its formerly subject territories of Nubia and Canaan.[26] He then reorganized the administration of the country, reopened quarries, mines and trade routes and began massive construction projects of a type that had not been undertaken since the time of the Middle Kingdom. This building program culminated in the construction of the last pyramid built by native Egyptian rulers. Ahmose's reign laid the foundations for the New Kingdom, under which Egyptian power reached its peak. His reign is usually dated to the mid-16th century BC.
^Gardiner 1964, p. 168.
^Columbia Encyclopedia 2008.
^Metropolitan Museum of Art 2023.
^ abcClayton 2006, p. 100.
^Woodward 1996, p. 46.
^Murnane 2001, p. 519.
^Romanosky 2001, p. 46.
^Troy 2001, p. 525.
^Grimal 1992, p. 392.
^von Beckerath 1997, p. 189.
^von Beckerath 1999, p. 286.
^Bryan 2000, p. 207.
^Rice 1999, p. 3.
^Hayes 1978, p. 499.
^Lehner 1997, p. 9.
^Shaw & Nicholson 1995, p. 17.
^Ryholt 1997, p. 410.
^Dodson & Hilton 2004, p. 290.
^Hornung 2012, p. 492.
^ abRamsey et al. 2010, p. 1556.
^Ritner & Moeller 2014, p. 17.
^ abcLeprohon 2013, p. 95.
^ abcWiener & Allen 1998, p. 3.
^Leprohon 2013, p. 96.
^Shaw 2000, p. 199.
^ abGrimal 1992, p. 192.
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