Ammu Aahotepre

{{Short description|Egyptian pharaoh}} {{Infobox pharaoh |Name= 'Ammu Aahotepre |Image=AahotepreScarabPetrie.png |caption=Scarab seal with the prenomen ''Aahotepre'' |Reign=c. 15 years? 1760-1745 BC<ref>Ryholt 1997</ref> |Predecessor=[[Qareh|Qareh Khawoserre]]<ref name="Ryholt"/> |Successor=[[Sheshi|Sheshi Maaibre]]<ref name="Ryholt"/> |prenomen= Aahotepre<ref>[http://www.eglyphica.de/egpharaonen/inhalt/inhalt.html Aahotepre on Eglyphica.de].</ref> ''ˁ3-ḥtp-Rˁ'' ''[[Ra]] is greatly pleased'' <hiero>N5:aA-a:Htp</hiero> |Dynasty=[[Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt|14th Dynasty]] Second Intermediate Period |nomen='Ammu (plus epithet)<ref>{{citation|last=Petrie|first=Flinders|author-link=Flinders Petrie|title=English: Scarab of Aammu, whom Ryholt identifies with Aahotepre, possibly 14th dynasty or otherwise a vassal of the 15th dynasty. Drawing by Flinders Petrie 1897.|date=2014-01-25|url=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aammu_Aahotepre.png|access-date=2023-01-13}}</ref> ''Son of [[Ra]], perfect 'Ammu, given life'' <hiero>G39-N5-F35-D36-N35A-X8-S34</hiero>}}

'''<nowiki/>'Ammu Aahotepre''' was a [[pharaoh]] of the [[Fourteenth Dynasty of Egypt|14th Dynasty]] who ruled over parts of Lower Egypt during the [[Second Intermediate Period of Egypt|Second Intermediate Period]].<ref name="Hayes">Hayes 1973: 64.</ref><ref name="Ryholt">Ryholt 1997: 50.</ref>

==Attestations== This king is poorly attested, see Ryholt 1997:364-365 File 14:4. Like other kings of the dynasty, [[scarab seal]]s are the only surviving evidence for his reign.

===Scarab seals=== 'Ammu Aahotepre has 61 seals bearing his name: 30 for the nomen 'Ammu and 32 for the prenomen Aahotepre.<ref name=":0"/> The theory that 'Ammu and Aahotepre refer to the same ruler is not certain.

At [[Tell el-Ajjul]], a scarab bearing the nomen of this king was discovered by [[Flinders Petrie]] in 1933.<ref>{{cite book|last=Flinders|first=Petrie|title=Ancient Gaza Chapter III: Scarabs Tell El Ajjul (London, 1933)|year=1933}}</ref>

====Prenomen Aahotepre==== Scarab seals from 1x Lachish,<ref>London Institute of Archaeology</ref> 2x Tell el-Ajjul,<ref>Pr. Loc. Unknown; Israel Museum 35.3941.</ref> 1x Canaan (?),<ref>bought around Jerusalem, Kloetzli Collection.</ref> 1x Delta (?),<ref>BM EA 42397</ref> 27x Provenance Unknown.<ref>Ryholt 1997:365.</ref>

====Nomen 'Ammu==== Scarab seals from 2x Tell el-Ajjul,<ref>BM L 904, London Institute of Archaeology E.XII 66/2</ref> 1x Abydos,<ref>Cairo JE 22157/CG 36040.</ref> 1x Semna,<ref>BMFA 24.1508</ref> 26x Provenance Unknown.<ref>Ryholt 1997:365.</ref>

==Theories== His reign is believed to have lasted about 15 years, from 1760 BC until 1745 BC.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|last1=Ryholt|first1=K. S. B.|author-link=Kim Ryholt|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ANRi7cM5ZwsC&dq=Khawoserre&pg=PA41|title=The Political Situation in Egypt During the Second Intermediate Period, C. 1800-1550 B.C.|last2=Bülow-Jacobsen|first2=Adam|year=1997|publisher=Museum Tusculanum Press|isbn=978-87-7289-421-8|pages=199}}</ref>

===Identification=== [[Kim Ryholt|Ryholt]] (1997) identified king 'Ammu with Aahotepre in his reconstruction of the [[Turin King List|Turin canon]].<ref name="Ryholt"/> [[Jürgen von Beckerath|Von Beckerath]] (1964) had previously assigned the prenomen ''Aahotepre'' to a pharaoh of the [[Sixteenth dynasty of Egypt]].<ref>Ryholt 1997: 324 n. 1116.</ref>

==See also== *[[Aamu]]

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== *{{Citation| last = von Beckerath | first = Jürgen | author-link = Jürgen von Beckerath| contribution = 2. Zwischenzeit | title = [[Archiv für Orientforschung]]| date = 1964 }} *{{Cite book | last = Hayes | first = William C. | contribution = Egypt: From the death of Ammenemes III to Seqenenre II | year = 1973 | title = The Cambridge Ancient History | volume = 2 | place = Cambridge | publisher = Cambridge University Press }}. *{{Citation| last = Ryholt | first = K. S. B. | author-link = Kim Ryholt | title = The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800 - 1550 BC | publisher = [[Museum Tusculanum Press]] | date = 1997 | location = Copenhagen | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ANRi7cM5ZwsC&q=thinis | isbn = 87-7289-421-0}}

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