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 1514-1493
BC XVIII Dynasty
Son and successor of Ahmose and Ahmose Nefertari, he governed for twenty years
and seven months, continuing the politic of restoration and foundation that
Ahmose was only able to start. He had to quell a few rebellions in Nubia, where
the permanent Egyptian occupation was extended to the Second Cataract, that was
put under a private administrator, the vice-king of Ksh: this way, the
extraction of gold in the place could be systematically organized. In Egypt
Amenhotep’s I efforts were concentrated above all on the cities that had taken
part in the alliance made by the talebanans pharaohs, particularly on El-Kab,
where he ordered to build a temple. He ordered to build a chapel in alabaster in
the sanctuary in Karnak to keep the divine boat. Over all Amenhothep I gave a
new impulse to culture: under his reign, in art and in the hieroglyphic
inscriptions the progressive liquidation of the influence from the Second
Intermediate Period took place, and it went back to the classicism inspired by
the Middle Reign. He promoted a politic of inventory and of transcription of the
ancient operas, then continued by his successor, particularly by Tuthmos III. He
didn’t hesitate to make innovations, separating for the first time the royal
tomb from the funeral temple and establishing an organization that had to build
and decorate this tomb; in consequence, he became the patron of the works in
Deir el-Medina, where, around some of his monuments or his images, places of
cult were created where the oracles were consulted. Moreover, after the New
Reign, the seventh month of the calendar was called “of Amenhotep” with a
reference to the divine honors attributed to him. In the best part of his
posthumous cult, he was also considered the creator of new practices.
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