Ahmose Henuttamehu

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Ahmose Henuttamehu in hieroglyphics
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Ahmose Henuttamehu
(Ah mose Henut ta mehu)
Jˁḥ ms Hnw.t t3 mḥw
The moon (god) is born, mistress of Lower Egypt
Mummy Ahmose-Henuttamehu Smith.JPG
Mummy of Ahmose Henuttamehu

Ahmose Henuttamehu was an ancient Egyptian princess and queen at the transition from the 17th to the 18th dynasty (around 1550 BC).

family

Ahmose Henuttamehu was a daughter of King Seqenenre and his sister consort Ahmose Inhapi . She was probably married to her half-brother Ahmose I , as she was named King Wife ( ḥmt-njswt - hemet-nisut), Great King Wife ( ḥmt-njswt-wrt - hemet-nisut-weret), King's daughter ( s3t-niswt - sat- nisut) and royal sister ( snt-niswt - senet-nisut). She was the half-sister of the Great King Wife and Consort of Amun Ahmose Nefertari .

Life and aftermath

Not much is known about the life of Ahmose Henuttamehu. She is mentioned on a stele depicted in Lepsius' monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia .

Ahmose Henuttamehu's mummy (Egyptian Museum Cairo, CG 61061) was discovered in 1881 together with the coffin in the cachette of Deir el-Bahari (scientific grave number DB / TT320) and is now in the Egyptian Museum Cairo . The mummy was badly damaged in transit from Luxor to Cairo. According to Gaston Maspero's December 1882 investigation , she died an old woman with worn teeth, signs of tooth decay and an abscess on a tooth root. Ahmose Henuttamehu was about 1.52 m tall, according to Grafton Elliot Smith . Their mummy bandages were inscribed with sayings from the Book of the Dead . She was probably buried with her mother; in the year 11 of Pharaoh Scheschonq I her mummy was transferred to DB320 together with other mummies.

Their cult of the dead extends into the 19th dynasty . She appears together with other Ahmosids in the Theban tomb TT2 (tomb of Chabechnet).

Ahmose Henuttamehu, followed by another royal lady, possibly her mother Ahmose Inhapi
Prince Sapair , Queen Ahmose, Queen Tures, Queen Ahmose Henuttamehu and an unknown royal lady in tomb TT2

literature

  • Grafton Elliot Smith: The Royal Mummies. Imprimerie de l'Institut français, Cairo 1912 (Reprint: Duckworth, London 2000, ISBN 0-7156-2959-X ), p. 19.

Web links

Commons : Ahmose-Henuttamehu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

supporting documents

  1. ^ Aidan Dodson , Dyan Hilton: The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson, London 2004, ISBN 0-500-05128-3 , p. 128.
  2. ↑ tungsten Grajetzki : Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary. Golden House Publications, London 2005.
  3. ↑ 17th Dynasty Royal Mummies from DB320, Ahmose-Henttimehu. In: The Theban Royal Mummy Project. Retrieved December 28, 2017 (English).
  4. ↑ Kenneth A. Kitchen : Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated and Annotated Translations. Volume 3: Ramesses II, His Contemporaries. Blackwell, Oxford 1996.
personal data
SURNAME Ahmose Henuttamehu
BRIEF DESCRIPTION ancient egyptian queen
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 16th century BC Chr.