Relief with Head of King Ahmose Wearing the Red Crown
New Kingdom
Ahmose, first king of Dynasty 18 and founder of the New Kingdom, was the son of Seqenenre and brother of Kamose, the last two rulers of Dynasty 17. Continuing the work of his father and brother, he succeeded in driving the Hyksos rulers out of Avaris (modern Tell el-Daba in the Delta and reunited Egypt after Second Intermediate Period. Further campaigns consolidated Egypt's control over Nubia. Like the rulers of Dynasty 11, who reunited Egypt at the beginning of the second millennium B.C., Ahmose was of Theban origin and was buried at Thebes.
This relief of Ahmose wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt comes from his funerary cenotaph at Abydos. Since the Early Dynastic Period (ca. 3100-2649 B.C.), when the first kings of Egypt were buried there, Abydos had been regarded as the tomb of Osiris, god of the afterlife, and both royal and private individuals set up cenotaphs there.
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