Kamose
★wꜢḏ-ḫpr-rꜤ — kꜢ-ms(w)
Launched the final campaign to expel the Hyksos from Egypt.
- Reign
- 1555 BC–1550 BC
- Dynasty
- Seventeenth Dynasty
- Period
- Second Intermediatec. 1650 BC – 1550 BC
- Also known as
- Kamesiu
Royal Names in Hieroglyphs
5 of 5 documented
Horus Name
2 sources
- Lacau, Une stèle du roi “Kamosis”, ASAE 39 (1939): 245-271, pls. 37-38
- Beckerath, “Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen”, 2nd ed. MÄS 49 (1999). 130-131, 15:H1
2 variants
Horus Name variant A
nfr-hꜤb-tꜢwi͗
The perfect one is the sickle of the Two Lands
Horus Name variant B
sḏfꜢ-tꜢwi͗
The one who has provisioned the Two Lands
Prenomen (Throne Name)
2 sources
- Habachi, The Second Stela of Kamose and the struggle against the Hyksos Ruler and His Capital, ADAIK 8 (1972): pl. 7
- Beckerath, “Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen”, 2nd ed. MÄS 49 (1999). 130-131, 15:T1
1 variant
Prenomen (Throne Name) variant A
wꜢḏ-ḫpr-rꜤ nḫt
The flourishing one is the manifestation of Ra is victorious
Nomen (Birth Name)
2 sources
- Gardiner, The Defeat of the Hyksos by Kamōse: The Carnarvon Tablet, No. I, JEA 3 (1916): 97
- Beckerath, “Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen”, 2nd ed. MÄS 49 (1999). 130-131, 15:E3
2 variants
Nomen (Birth Name) variant A
kꜢ-ms(w) nḫt(w)
Kamose the victorious
Nomen (Birth Name) variant B
kꜢ-ms(w) nḫt(w)
Kamose the victorious
Nebty (Two Ladies) Name
2 sources
- Vandersleyen, L'Egypte et la vallée du Nil, 2, 195
- Beckerath, “Handbuch der ägyptischen Königsnamen”, 2nd ed. MÄS 49 (1999). 130-131, 15:N1
Golden Horus Name
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