Amenmesse

Name of Amenmesse
Portrait head of the Pharaoh Amenmesse Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York
Horus name	Ka-nechet-meri-Maat-schemen-taui K3-nḫt-mr.j-M3ˁ-šmn-t3wj Strong bull, lover of the mate who makes the two countries strong
Sideline	Wer-biaut-em-Ipet-sut Wr-bj3wt-m-Jpt-swt With great miracles in Karnak
Gold name	Aa -...- (Ipet-sut?) ˁ3 ... Groß an ... ... Karnak (?) (Character destroyed)
Throne name	Men-mi-Re-setep-en-Re Mn-mj-Rˁ-stp.n-Rˁ Constant like Re , chosen one of Re
Proper name	Amenmesseheqawaset (Amen mes se heqa Waset) Jmn msj swḥq3 W3st Amun it is who created it. Ruler of Thebes .
Greek	Manetho variants: Josephus : - Africanus : Ammenemnes Eusebius Ammenemes Eusebius, A version: Ammenemes

Amenmesse was the 5th ancient Egyptian king ( Pharaoh ) of the 19th Dynasty ( New Kingdom ) and ruled from 1203 to 1200 BC. Chr.

Origin and family

Amenmesses family membership is not guaranteed. He was probably the son of Pharaoh Merenptah and his wife Tachat , a daughter of Ramses II. His wives were Baketwerel and Tia. Another spelling of the name is "Amun-Masesa" ("Amunmasesa"), which is why the possibility is being considered that it is the biblically transmitted person of Moses .

Domination

Amenmesse is a controversial king in scholarship and there are different opinions as to when to set his reign. According to Rolf Krauss , Amenmesse is identical to the viceroy of Kusch, Messui, who was already occupied under Merenptah and for a short time under Sethos II . As a result, he would have been anti-king to Seti II for a period of four years (1203–1199). According to Thomas Schneider, however, this thesis is "not conclusively demonstrable". After Manetho he ruled for five years. His reign either falls between that of Merenptah and Seti II or as a usurper during the reign of Seti II.

His grave

The grave KV10 in the Valley of the Kings was uncovered in 1907 and identified as the grave of Amenmesse. The king's mummy was no longer in the grave, instead the mummies of two unknown women were buried here. It is believed that this is Amenmesses mother, Tachat, and his wife, Baketwerel, as both are depicted in the well chamber of the tomb.

literature

• Darrell D. Baker: The Encyclopedia of the Egyptian Pharaohs, Volume I: Predynastic to the Twentieth Dynasty (3300-1069 BC). Bannerstone Press, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-905299-37-9 , pp. 50-52.
• Aidan Dodson : King Amenmesse at Riqqa. In: Göttinger Miscellen . (GM) Vol. 117, 1990, pp. 153-156.
• Erik Hornung : The New Kingdom. In: Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss, David A. Warburton (eds.): Ancient Egyptian Chronology (= Handbook of Oriental studies. Section One. The Near and Middle East. Volume 83). Brill, Leiden / Boston 2006, ISBN 978-90-04-11385-5 , pp. 197-217 ( online ).
• Kenneth A. Kitchen : Amenmesses in Northern Egypt. In: Göttinger Miscellen. Vol. 99, 1987, pp. 23-26.
• Rolf Krauss : On the historical classification of Amenmesses and on the chronology of the 19th and 20th centuries. Dynasty. In: Göttinger Miscellen. Vol. 45, 1981, pp. 27-34.
• Rolf Krauss: Investigations into King Amenmesse. Supplements. In: Studies on ancient Egyptian culture. Volume 24, 1998 pp. 161-184.
• Rolf Krauss: The Moses riddle. On the trail of a biblical invention. Ullstein, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-550-07172-8 .
• Thomas Schneider : Lexicon of the Pharaohs. The ancient Egyptian kings from the early days to the rule of the Romans 2nd edition, Artemis & Winkler, Zurich 1997, pp. 71–72.

Web links

Commons : Amenmesse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Details of his grave in the Valley of the Kings

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dating from Thomas Schneider: Lexikon der Pharaonen. Albatros, Düsseldorf 2002, ISBN 3-491-96053-3 .
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Thomas Schneider: Lexicon of the Pharaohs. The ancient Egyptian kings from the early days to the rule of the Romans Zurich 1997, p. 71.
3. ↑ Rolf Krauss: The Moses Riddle. Munich 2001.

predecessor	Office	successor
Merenptah	Pharaoh of Egypt 19th Dynasty	Seti II