Ahmose Inhapi

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Ahmose Inhapi in hieroglyphics
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Ahmose Inhapi
(Ah mose Inhapi)
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Inhapi mummy head.jpg
Mummy head of the Ahmose Inhapi

Ahmose Inhapi was an ancient Egyptian princess of the 17th dynasty and belonged to the Ahmosid family .

family

Ahmose Inhapi was very likely a minor wife of Seqenenre and possibly his half-sister, she was but so far as a side wife of Kamose or Ahmose I assigned. In addition, she was the mother of Ahmose Henuttamehu , whose wet nurse with the name Rai was also the wet nurse of Ahmose Nefertari . The titles "King's Daughter" and " King Wife " are mentioned on her shroud .

mummy

Mummy of the Inhapi

The mummy was discovered near the entrance to Corridor B on DB320 . She was unwrapped on June 20, 1886 by Gaston Maspero . Grafton Elliot Smith later noticed that the mummy was similar to Seqenenre's. Although she was carefully embalmed, her body was not much better preserved than her hastily mummified husband. The mummy itself was wrapped in a shroud and had a wreath of flowers around its neck. Smith described the mummy as that of a "tall, well-built woman." The body was in the usual position, with the arms vertical along the sides. Her dark brown skin was, according to Smith, "soft, moist and tough, like oiled leather".

Smith compared the mummy to mummies from the later Coptic period, but noted that the embalming incisions were quite different. Oddly enough, despite the incisions, some of the pelvic organs were still in their original place. Smith attributed the facial disfigurements to tissue atrophy under the skin and to an indefinite object, perhaps a pectoral ornament , pressed against the swollen skin. In addition, as with Seqenenre, aromatic powdered wood seemed to have been scattered over Inhapi's body. Judging by the type of braided hair, the mummy appears to date to the early New Kingdom .

Inhapi's mummy was found in the outer coffin (CG 61004) of Lady Rai , a wet nurse of Ahmose-Nefertari. Although the gold leaf of the coffin was peeled off and the eye inlays removed, the symbolic figures of Isis and Nephthys at the foot end were preserved, which, according to Reeves, is probably due to the work of ancient restorers.

Based on the handwriting on the piece of paper on the shroud, the osirification of the mummy probably took place at the same time as that of the mummies of Ahmose Satkamose , Satamun , Saamun , Ahmose Meritamun I and Ahmose I, i.e. between the 7th and 8th year of Psusennes' reign I.

The mummy is now with the inventory number CG 61053 in the mummy room of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo .

" Q3y the Inhapi"

During the reburial actions of the royal mummies in the cachette of Deir el-Bahari in the 21st Dynasty , a place called “ q3y der Inhapi” was often mentioned, which was also associated with the name “royal place where Amenhotep lies”. For a long time, the place was regarded as the name for the cachette itself, as the mummy of Amenhotep I was found there. q3y was translated as high place , which Elizabeth Thomas suspected to be in Chamber E of the Cachette. However, a modern follow-up examination showed that this chamber appeared unsuitable as a place for the q3y . In addition, the Inhapi mummy was found on the steps of the descending Corridor A, so it seems unlikely that the cachette was intended for Inhapi. Reeves identified the q3y with the WNA grave , which is high in the rock near Deir el-Bahari , on the path between the Königstal and the Cachette. Erhart Graefe , however, translated q3y as a hill and located the place in the necropolis of Dra Abu el-Naga , which also served as the burial place of Seqenenre and Amenophis I. He sees the grave of Amenhotep I as the sought-after interim storage facility for the royal mummies.

literature

  • Alfred Grimm, Sylvia Schoske: In the sign of the moon. Egypt at the beginning of the New Kingdom (=  writings from the Egyptian collection . Volume 7 ). State Collection of Egyptian Art, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-87490-691-4 , p. 44-45 .
  • Gitta Warnemünde: The q3y of the Inhapi . In: Deir el-Bahari (=  Kemet . No. 2/2006 ). ISSN  0943-5972 , p. 36-39 .

To the mummy

  • Georges Daressy : Cercueils des cachettes royales . Imprimerie de L ' Institut français d'archéologie orientale , Cairo 1909, p. 4th ff .
  • Gaston Maspero : Les momies royales de Deir el-Bahari . Imprimerie de L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Cairo 1883, p. 530 ff .
  • Nicholas Reeves : The Valley of the Kings; the Decline of a Royal Necropolis . Kegan Paul International, 1990, p. 187-192, 200, 206, 214, 228, 232 .
  • Grafton Elliot Smith : The Royal Mummies . Imprimerie de L'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Cairo 1912, p. 8-11 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A. Grimm, S. Schoske: In the sign of the moon . 1999, p. 44-45 .
  2. ↑ a b 17th Dynasty Royal Mummies from DB320: Ahmose-Inhapi. In: The Theban Royal Mummy Project. Retrieved August 15, 2017 .
  3. ↑ G. Warnemünde: The q3y of the Inhapi . 2006, p. 38-39 .
personal data
SURNAME Ahmose Inhapi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Consort of the Seqenenre
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century BC Chr.
DATE OF DEATH 16th century BC Chr.