** Buto, the city of papyrus seneb was also the main center of worship of the cobra goddess Wadjet protective of the sovereigns ; that was the reason why the first reign name of Kamose was Wadj-kheper-ra. We can imagine that Ouadjet was in fact Queen Teti-sheri deified. As Kamose's grandmother , she hid and raised him until the age of 5 years in order to protect him against the Hyksos King Apophis Âauserre who wanted to kill him.
Herodotus (II, 155-156) reported that near Buto there was a a floating island named Chemnis in the middle of a lake. There was a temple of Latone, the mother of Apollo and Diana (Latin names of Teti-sheri, the mother of King Seqen-en-ré and Queen Ah-hotep). In fact Egyptians named "floatinf islands the lands emerging from water to distinguish them from those we named peninsulas.
These circumstances could be at the origin of the legend of the biblical Moses, baby abandoned and entrusted to the Nile in a floating cradle: the island of Chemnis.
To precise the life time of these figures in the history of Egypt, I tried to reconstruct a chronology of events in which they participated basing on a date astronomically sure at + 15 years. This observation of the helical rising of the star named Sirius in the 9th year of the reign of king Amenhotep Ist happened in 1527 B.C.
Click here to view the chronology of this period located between the end of the Middle Kingdom and the beginning of the New Kingdom. For that it is called "Second Intermediate Period" by egyptologists, but it is still poorly elucidated. Please consider this family tree as an attempted reconstruction only under my own responsability.
I hope my "suggestions" based on archeologic discoveries and reports of ancient authors could be of some help for historians and amateurs like me.
T. G.
A Kushite princess of Meroe
Makeda first wife of Kamose ? her tomb in Illahun ?)
These brother and sister spouses of Asiatic origin reigned in Thebes at the end of the 17th Dynasty (circa 1580 BC).
They were children of Queen Teti-sheri (separated from her husband Apophis (II) Aâwserre king of Avaris ?)
This head of Hatshepsut strikingly looks like
Queen Ahhotep (the mother of Kamose),
her grandmother ? See above.
Queen Hatshepsut Maâtkare
the daughter of Thuthmose Ist (alias Kamose)
and of his granddaughter and wife
Queen Ahmes.
Queen Ahmes
stepsister of Amenophis Ist
spouse of Tuthmose Ist
King Amenhotep Ist
son of king Ahmose (I) and
queen Ahmose-Nefertari
(grandson of Kamose ?)
dead without male heir
Queen Ahmose-Nefertari
spouse of Ahmose(and elder daughter of Kamose ?)
King Ahmose (I)
Nebpehtire
(stepbrother of Kamose ?)
When very young he spoused a Kushite princess of Meroe whose he had a daughter Ahmes-Nefertari who married king Ahmose (stepbrother of her father Kamose).
According to a late tradition Kamose exiled in secret by reason of his rebelion against Ahmose king in Thebes had reigned for 40 years on the Land of Kush in Meroe, Then he came back to Egypt to take the throne become vacant after the death of king Amenophis Ist (his grandson) who died without male heir.
Thus, Kamose had reached the throne when 65 years-old under the name of Thuthmose Ist, whose father and mother parents remain unknown. But his alleged mother Senseneb ("that of the seneb papyrus") could be the queen Teti-schéri, residing in Buto*, who had passed him for her own child (actually his grand-son). That could make of him the legitimate heir of the Theban kings of the 17th Dynasty).
Previously Thuthmose Ist have spoused Ahmes (probably a stepsister of Amenhotep Ist, whom queen Ahmose-Nefertari had after the death of king Ahmose, because Ahmes was not called king's daughter.
Thuthmose Ist was particularly interested in Nubia. He hastened to claim to the ruler of Kerma that his accession to the throne have happened peacefully.
He was particularly affected by the death of the queen-mother Ahmose-Nefertari (probably his eldest daughter).
With queen Ahmes he had a daughter whom when young he designed to be his heir to the throne : queen Hatshepsout Maâtkare.
With another spouse Mutnofret, he had a son, the future king Thuthmose II who married his stepsister Hatshepsut.
Apophis (II) Aâwserre
"the old decrepit king of Syria"
the father of Princess Herit
(Husband of Queen Teti-sheri,
Grandfather and incestuous Kamose's father ?)
King Kamose Wadjkheperre heroe of the war against Hyksos was considered to be dead and buried for politic reasons after some ten years of reign. Later he was named the Egyptian Heracles by ancient authors because of his numerous conquests and deeds all around the world, which were also attributed to king Sesostris, as he reused a stela with the name of Sesostris Ist (12th Dynasty) encarved on one of its side face.
King Antef (VII) Nubkheperre
(protective of Ahhotep and
adoptive Kamose's father
(because Antef had only a daughter with his wife queen Sobekemsaf and had remained without male heir)
Queen Ahhotep
Mother of Ahmose (and of his stepbrother Kamose ?)
King Seqenenre Taâ Ahmose's father (and uncle of his step brother Kamose ?)
Queen Teti-sheri
Mother of Ahhotep (and grandmother and nurse of Kamose ?)
The Family Tree of Kamose
"The Heracles of Egypt"
(We put inside a violet frame the people whose filiation was attested by archaeology)