A CONCISE DICTIONARY

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EGYPTIAN ARCHAEOLOGY

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Aāḥ, who is purely a moon God, shares with Khensu and Thoth the emblems of the lunar crescent and solar disk. He is sometimes connected with Thoth (q.v.).

Wife of Seqenen-Ra III., an obscure king of the end of Dynasty XVII. and mother of Ääḥmes I., first king of the XVIIIth Dynasty. In 1860, the diggers of M. Mariette discovered at Thebes the coffin of this queen, but M. Mariette being unfortunately absent at the time, the mummy was robbed of many valuable articles. The coffin cover is in the shape of a mummy, and is gilt from top to bottom. The articles found in the coffin included a doublehinged bracelet with gold figures, on a groundwork of blue enamel;

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a large bracelet opening with a hinge; an axe with a handle of cedar-wood covered with gold-leaf and ornamented with lapis lazuli, carnelian and turquoise; a dagger in a sheath of gold; a gold chain with pendant scarabaeus; a large gold collar with hawks' heads at each end, etc. These objects are now in the Cairo Museum.

Aah-hetep II. She was the daughter of Queen Nefertari and Aāḥmes I., and wife of Amen-hetep I. (Dynasty XVIII.).

Aaḥmes I. Neb-peḥti-Ra. First king of Dynasty

XVIII., cir. 1587 B.C. Nefert-ȧri was his queen, and he had by her six children. Aaḥmes began the great war of independence which resulted in the expulsion of the Hyksos. He captured their capital Ḥat-uārt (Tanis ?) and drove them into the Palestine desert. He then subjugated the Mentiu, or Bedawin. Turning south he went up the Nile to Semneh and repelled the Ethiopians. The body of Aaḥmes, in a fair state of preservation, is in the Cairo Museum. He appears

to have died in the prime of life.

Aahmes se-Nit, Khnem-ab-Rā, Amāsis II., Dynasty

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XXVI., B.C. 572-528. He married the princess Ankhsen-Ra-Nefert, daughter of Psammetichus II. This Pharaoh encouraged commercial enterprise by opening Naukratis (q.v.) to Greek traders both as a free port and as a place of settlement. He also conquered Cyprus, and made an alliance with Croesus, king of Lydia, in the hope of stemming the tide of Persian. invasion.