Kamose

Kamose
Kamose
	Sarcophagus of Kamose, Cairo Egyptian Museum
Pharaoh
Reign	c. 1555–1550 BC
Predecessor	Seqenenre Tao
Successor	Ahmose I
Horus name
Horus name
Nebty name
	Wehem-menu ; Wḥm-mnw ; He who renews the fortifications
Golden Horus
	Bik Nebu Seheru-Tawi ; bjk nbw shrw-t3wj ; The Golden Falcon who satisfies the two lands
Prenomen (Praenomen)
	Wadjkheperre; W3ḏ-ḫpr-Rˁ ; Flourishing is the Manifestation of Re
Nomen
	Kamose; Kȝ ms(=w) ; He who is born of the bull
	;
Consort	Ahhotep II (?)
Children	Ahmose-Sitkamose (?)
Father	Seqenenre Tao?
Mother	Ahhotep I?
Died	1550 BC
Burial	Dra' Abu el-Naga'
Dynasty	17th Dynasty

Kamose was the last Pharaoh of the Theban Seventeenth Dynasty. He was possibly the son of Seqenenre Tao and Ahhotep I and the brother of Ahmose I, founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty. His reign fell at the very end of the Second Intermediate Period. Kamose is usually ascribed a reign of three years (his highest attested regnal year), although some scholars now favor giving him a longer reign of approximately five years.^[5]

His reign is important for the decisive military initiatives he took against the Hyksos, who had come to rule much of Ancient Egypt.^[6] His father had begun the initiatives and lost his life in battle with the Hyksos. It is thought that his mother, as regent, continued the campaigns after the death of Kamose, and that his full brother made the final conquest of them and united all of Egypt.

^ Shaw, Ian, ed. (2000). The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press. p. 481. ISBN 0-19-815034-2.
^ Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing: Ein thebanischer Grabfund aus dem Anfang des Neuen Reiches. Tafel 4 (8)
^ Claude Vandersleyen: L'Egypte et la vallée du Nil. Tome 2: De la fin de l'Ancien Empire à la fin du Nouvel Empire.Paris 1995, S. 195
^ ^a ^b Peter Clayton: Chronicle of the Pharaohs, Thames and Hudson Ltd, paperback 2006. p.94
^ Kim SB Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997, p.273. ISBN 87-7289-421-0
^ Cite error: The named reference Ryholt273 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[1] Shaw, Ian, ed. (2000). The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt. Oxford University Press. p. 481. ISBN 0-19-815034-2.

[2] Friedrich Wilhelm von Bissing: Ein thebanischer Grabfund aus dem Anfang des Neuen Reiches. Tafel 4 (8)

[C._Vandersleyen-3] Claude Vandersleyen: L'Egypte et la vallée du Nil. Tome 2: De la fin de l'Ancien Empire à la fin du Nouvel Empire.Paris 1995, S. 195

[clayton-4] Peter Clayton: Chronicle of the Pharaohs, Thames and Hudson Ltd, paperback 2006. p.94

[5] Kim SB Ryholt, The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications, Museum Tusculanum Press, 1997, p.273. ISBN 87-7289-421-0

[Ryholt273-6] Cite error: The named reference Ryholt273 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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