Senakhtenre Ahmose

Senachtenre ( Senacht -en- Re) was the throne name of an ancient Egyptian King ( Pharaoh ) of the 17th dynasty ( Second Intermediate Period ), which in 1560 ruled by Franke BC. His proper name was Ahmose, his Horus name Merymaat.

Documents

The ruler is only known from a single contemporary monument. There are two fragments of a door post and lintel, which were uncovered in 2012 near the Ptah temple of Karnak. Both elements of " fine white limestone from Tura " were part of a monumental gate memory, the Senachtenre had " his father Amun- Re" donated according to the inscription. Also his own name Ahmose and the Horus name Merymaat are obtained.

Prior to this discovery, the king was often referred to as Senachtenre Taa I.. The false birth name Taa goes back to the Papyrus Abbott, where he is prescribed. This was the view of Claude Vandersleyen, in 1983, pleading for the deletion of the name Taa for this king.

In addition to the entries in the so-called ancestral chamber of the Ah -menu Thutmose III. in Karnak Senachtenre only from the Papyrus Abbott, as well as a record in the grave of Chabechnet at Deir el -Medina and the victim of a panel Qen is known.

His wife could have been Tetischeri whose mummy bandages found the brothers Abd el- Rassoul around 1870 in the Deir el- Bahari, together with royal mummies mainly from the 17th, 18th and 19th dynasty. Under Sheshonk I of the 22nd Dynasty priests had the mummies hidden there to protect from grave robbers and possibly cleared the graves empty.

Regency

Despite the scarce evidence, he is considered a contemporary of Apophis and as a local prince of the subordinate commands of the upper Hyksosherrschers Apophis. The political situation between the Hyksos and the Thebans seemed still to have been largely stable at the time.

After the death

→ Main article: Tetischeri

Tetischeri was the first of a number of important Theban queens. Even after the death Senachtenres they probably played as Queen Mother and Great Royal Wife of the late King continues to be important in the royal court. Maybe it was even the driving force in the struggle against the Hyksos under Seqenenre Taa, Kamose and her grandson Ahmose. The latter gave her a pyramid and build a temple in the necropolis of Abydos, " in the neighborhood of the monuments of my Majesty, [ ... ] because he loved more than anything ." Accordingly, she probably lived at the beginning of the 18th Dynasty.