Thutmose (prince)

Thutmose also Djehutimes, Djehutimessu or Djehutimose, was the firstborn son of the king (Pharaoh) Amenhotep III. and the Great Royal Wife Tiye. Because of his early death later took over his brother Akhenaten as successor to the throne, the Office of the King.

Documents

His royal titles have been preserved, among others, on the sarcophagus of his cat: " Setem - priest ", " Prince ", " overseer of the priests of Upper and Lower Egypt " and " High Priest of Ptah " in Memphis.

The sarcophagus found in 1892 in Memphis his cat Ta formate, also Ta - meows (translated: " The Cat" ), is now in the Cairo Egyptian Museum. Prince Thutmose appears along with his father on a relief from the Serapeum at Saqqara, where he tended the funeral of a Apisstieres.

His death

Thutmose probably died in the last third of his father's reign.

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