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name and titles of Ahhotep, who is titled as King’s Eldest Daughter and She Who is Joined to the White Crown. On the sides of the statue, four females called Ahmes are
recorded as King’s Daughters with one stated to be the eldest and as the sisters of Ahmose. As Ahmose is referred to as mAa-xrw true of voice and Seqenenra-Tao is
not, and the sisters ‘cause his [Ahmose’s] name to live so that he may do every good for them in the Afterlife’, it is clear that he has predeceased Seqenenra-Tao and thus
cannot be identified with King Ahmose. It is highly likely that this statue recorded the family of the deceased and therefore Seqenenra-Tao and Ahhotep should be
interpreted as the parents of Ahmose and the four princesses.
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With the previous evidence summarised in Chart 2, this gives Chart 3.
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As the Ahhotep recorded on this statue was the Great Royal Wife of Seqenenra-Tao, it explains why Satdjehuty
lacked the same title. Also, if Ahhotep were the mother of the next king, the use of the title King’s Sister by Satdjehuty’s daughter Ahmes on her shrouds can also be
explained. Furthermore, it is likely that the Ahhotep of this statue was the sister of Seqenenra-Tao because it would explain why, as the eldest daughter of the previous
king, she was given pre-eminence with regard to the position of Great Royal Wife over her possible younger sister Satdjehuty.
King = Tetisheri
Satdjehuty = Seqenenra-Tao
Ahmes
2: Coffin-Head and Ahmes Shroud
Genealogy of the Ahmosid Family The Donation Stela and the Iuf Stela show that Queen-Consort Tetisheri was the
maternal and paternal grandmother of King Ahmose and his parents were Queen- Consort Ahhotep and a previous unstated king Chart 1. From the Munich coffin-
head and the Ahmes shrouds, it can be surmised that Tetisheri was the mother of Seqenenra-Tao and his wife Satdjehuty, though the latter was not a Great Royal Wife,
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Winlock 1924: 251.
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and they had a daughter called Ahmes, who was a half-sister to a king Chart 2. The Louvre Statue indicates that the Great Royal Wife of Seqenenra-Tao was called
Ahhotep Chart 3.
King = Tetisheri
Satdjehuty = Seqenenra-Tao = Ahhotep Ahmes Ahmes Ahmose King Ahmes Ahmes
Ahmes
3: Louvre Statue
King = Tetisheri
Satdjehuty = Seqenenra-Tao = Ahhotep
Ahmes Ahmes Ahmose Ahmose Ahmes Ahmes
Ahmes
4: Combined Genealogy
If the findings shown in Chart 1 were combined with the evidence from Chart 3, it would result in Tetisheri being the mother of Ahhotep and Seqenenra-Tao, and
they in turn being the parents of King Ahmose. Thus shown in Chart 4. It is possible that the Queen-Consort Ahhotep on the Louvre Statue was different to the Queen-
Consort Ahhotep on the other sources, both being queen-consorts to Seqenenra-Tao, if the former died before the latter. In this scenario, Ahhotep of the Louvre Statue
represented in Chart 3 must have died before Ahhotep of the Bahari coffin also known from the Karnak Stela and Iuf Stela and represented in Chart 1, because the
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latter Ahhotep, as evidenced by the Karnak Stela, lived into the reign of her son Ahmose. But if the simplest possible explanation is adopted, there appears to be no
good reason to assume that the Louvre Statue should represent an earlier queen- consort of Seqenenra-Tao. As shown in Chart 1 and 4, Ahhotep, the mother of
Ahmose, was the full sister of Seqenenra-Tao. It is therefore unlikely that another woman would have taken precedence over her.
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Several other people can be added to Chart 4 at this stage. As Senakhtenra was identified as the immediate predecessor of Seqenenra-Tao on several king lists,
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he is the most likely candidate to be his father and the husband of Tetisheri, especially as
he had the nomen of Ahmose,
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suggesting that he is part of this family. Also, primarily based on the inscriptions on the Donation Stela CG 34002, Ahmes-
Nefertari has long been recognised as the sister and queen-consort of King Ahmose.
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Senakhtenra = Tetisheri
Satdjehuty = Seqenenra-Tao = Ahhotep Ahmes Ahmes-Nefertari = Ahmose
Amenhotep I
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