Ahmose-Sipair
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| Ahmose-Sipair in hieroglyphs |
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Ahmose-Sipair was an Ancient Egyptian prince during the late 17th dynasty. He was probably a son of Pharaoh Tao II the Brave and a brother of Ahmose I.[1]
During the 18th dynasty he appears on several monuments. Such prominence is relatively rare in case of princes who never ascended to the throne, so it has been suggested that he might be identical with the unknown father of Thutmose I, who succeeded Sipair's nephew, the childless Amenhotep I.[1] However, the mummy identified as his is that of a 5-6 years old boy. The mummy was found in the Deir el-Bahri cache in 1881 and was unwrapped by Grafton Eliot Smith and A. R. Ferguson on September 9, 1905.[2]
[edit] Source
- ^ a b Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson (2004) ISBN 0-500-05128-3, p.129
- ^ The mummy of Ahmose-Sipair
