Ahmose (princess)
| Ahmose | ||||||
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| King's Daughter King's Sister | ||||||
 Princess Ahmose's mummy in Museo Egizio, Turin | ||||||
| Burial | QV47, Valley of the Queens | |||||
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| Dynasty | 17th Dynasty | |||||
| Father | Seqenenre Tao | |||||
| Mother | Sitdjehuti | |||||
Ahmose ("Child of the Moon") was a princess of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt.
Biography
[edit]She was the only known daughter of Seqenenre Tao (the Brave) by his sister-wife Sitdjehuti. She was the half-sister of Pharaoh Ahmose I and Queen Ahmose-Nefertari. Her titles are King's Daughter; King's Sister.[1]
Burial
[edit]Tomb QV 47
[edit]She was buried in the tomb QV47 in the Valley of the Queens.[1] Her tomb is thought to be the first to be constructed in the Valley of the Queens. The tomb is fairly simple and consists of an entrance shaft and a burial chamber. The tomb is located in a subsidiary valley named the Valley of Prince Ahmose.
Mummy
[edit]The mummy of Princess Ahmose was discovered by Ernesto Schiaparelli during his excavations from 1903 to 1905. Her mummy is now in the Egyptian Museum of Turin, Italy.[1]
Funerary goods
[edit]Besides the mummy, Schiaparelli also found funerary items including a fragment of her coffin, leather sandals, and fragments of a piece of linen inscribed with some 20 chapters of the Book of the Dead. All of these items are housed in Turin.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson (2004) ISBN 0-500-05128-3, p. 128
- ^ Porter, Bertha and Moss, Rosalind, Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Statues, Reliefs and Paintings Volume I: The Theban Necropolis, Part 2. Royal Tombs and Smaller Cemeteries, Griffith Institute. 1964
External links
[edit]- Theban Mapping Project – Plan of the tomb and other details.
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