Ahmose Sapair

Ahmose-Sapair
Prince of Egypt
Burial Thebes
Egyptian name
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Dynasty Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt
Father Amenhotep I

Ahmose-Sapair (also -Sipair) was a prince of the early Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt. He was probably a son of Pharaoh Amenhotep I and is shown with him on several stelae and also on a wall fragment from the tomb of the gardener, Nakht, [TT161], which is now in Brussels. A now lost inscription above it, naming the two individuals, was copied and preserved by Hays. Ahmose-Sipair is not to be confused with another prince named Ahmose, who was the son of Seqenenre Tao and who has a beautiful statue dedicated to him by his family members. The inscription on the statue does not contain the secondary name of Sipair [son of the eye of Horus], however. Both princes are probably depicted in a scene from the tomb of Inherkau [TT359]. Ahmose-Sipair is the last person in the first row of the defunct royals of ancient Egypt and there is another king's son shown in the second row. His entire name does not survive, only the element "ms", but as he is seated behind King Seqenenre, he is likely that ruler's lamented son, Prince Ahmose.

During the Eighteenth Dynasty, he appears on several monuments. There was the mummy of a child identified as Ahmose-Sipair, but that of a 5- to 6-year-old boy. The mummy was found in the Deir el-Bahari cache (DB320) in 1881 and was unwrapped by Grafton Elliot Smith and A. R. Ferguson on September 9, 1905. However, as Prince Ahmose-Sipair is always portrayed as an adult, or perhaps in his teens, even on the coffin of the scribe, Butehamun, who restored his mummy as well as those of other members of his immediate family, the child-mummy cannot be his.[1]

The location of his tomb is unknown, however it was still known during the inspection of tombs from the Twentieth Dynasty mentioned on the Abbott Papyrus.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "View Early Eighteenth Dynasty Mummies from DB320". members.tripod.com. Retrieved 2018-02-26.
  2. ↑ Wente, Edward F. Thutmose III's Accession and the Beginning of the New Kingdom. p. 271 . Journal of Near Eastern Studies, University of Chicago Press, 1975.
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