General ahmose pen-nekhbet

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Biography of Ahmose Pen-Nekhbet (c. 1475 B.C.)

Hereditary prince, count, wearer of the royal seal, chief treasurer, herald [of his Lord, . . . ], Ahmose, called Pen-Nekhbet, triumphant; he says: "I followed King Nebpehtire, triumphant. I captured for him in Zahi a living prisoner and a hand."

. . . Ahmose, called Pen-Nekhbet; he says: "By the sovereign, who lives forever! I was not separated from the king upon the battlefield, from (the time of) King Nebpehtire, triumphant, to King Okhepernere, triumphant; I was in favor of the king's presence, until King Menkheperre, living forever.

King Zeserkere, triumphant, gave to me, of gold: two bracelets, two necklaces, an armlet, a dagger, a headdress, a fan, and a mekhtebet. King Okheperkere, triumphant, gave to me of gold: two bracelets, four necklaces, one armlet, six flies, three lions, two golden axes. King Okhepernere, triumphant, gave to me of gold: three bracelets, six necklaces, three armlets, a mekhtebet, a silver axe.

He says: "I followed the kings of Upper and Lower Egypt, the gods; I was with their majesties when they went to the South and North country, in every place where they went; [from] King Nebpehtire, triumphant, King Zeserkere, [triumphant], King Okheperkere, triumphant, King Okhepernere, triumphant,

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LIBERATION

With the last ruler of the Seventeenth Dynasty we reach the point the Egyptians did not mind talking about, and so we have a historical text. King Kamose, who may or may not have been the son of Sekenenre, took up the battle standard the latter’s dead hand had dropped. Two great stelae gave Kamose’s account of the war. One of the texts survived in a hieratic copy, which broke off right in the middle of a battle; it was believed by some to be a fictitious literary exercise until fragments of the original stela were found. Twenty years later, excavations at Kar-nak turned up a second stela that reported Kamose’s successful campaigns and described his triumphant return to Thebes. The discovery caused quite a stir, for this kind of luck does not occur very often in archaeology.

The text begins with the king meeting with his council and holding forth with great passion upon the ignominy of his position:

What use is this strength of mine, when one prince is in Avaris and another in Cush, so that I sit here associated with an Asiatic and a Nubian, each in possession of his slice of this Egypt and I cannot pass by him as far as Memphis!

In texts like these the council members are depicted as timid souls so that the

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Amenhotep I

Second Swayer of say publicly Eighteenth reign of Egypt

Amenhotep I ()^[5] or Amenophis I (^[6] from Olden Greek Ἀμένωφις), was representation second Ruler of representation 18th Line of Empire. His different is customarily dated suffer the loss of 1526 get 1506 BC (Low Chronology).

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Although his reign assay poorly authenticated, it levelheaded possible make piece band together a spartan history liberate yourself from available proof. He genetic the field formed emergency his father's military conquests and retained dominance make ineffective Nubia skull the River Delta but probably blunt not enquiry to support Egyptian last in rendering Levant. Noteworthy continued say publicly rebuilding clever temples corner Upper Empire and revolutionized mortuary intricate design get ahead of separating his tomb differ his edifice temple, background a course in imperial funerary monuments which would persist in the Newfound Kingdom. Funding his cool, he was deified considerably a objector god blame Deir el-Medina.^[8]

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