The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . age to Osiris in the barkof the god itself (Maspero, Catalogue du Mus€e Egypiien de Marseille, No. 32, pp. 20, 21), and anotherstele in the Louvre informs us that Pharaoh Thutmosis IV. several times sent one of his messengersto Abydos for the purpose of presenting laud to Osiris aud to his own ancestor Ahmosis (C 53, iuIlERRET, Mecueil dInscriptions inidites du Mus^e Eijyptien dti Louvre, vol. ii. pp. 14,15). Maspero, Les Momiex royales de Deir-el-Bahari, in the Mimoire de la Mission, vol. i. pp. 533, 535. AMENOTHES I. AND NOFKITABI. 95
The struggle of the nations - Egypt, Syria, and Assyria . age to Osiris in the barkof the god itself (Maspero, Catalogue du Mus€e Egypiien de Marseille, No. 32, pp. 20, 21), and anotherstele in the Louvre informs us that Pharaoh Thutmosis IV. several times sent one of his messengersto Abydos for the purpose of presenting laud to Osiris aud to his own ancestor Ahmosis (C 53, iuIlERRET, Mecueil dInscriptions inidites du Mus^e Eijyptien dti Louvre, vol. ii. pp. 14,15). Maspero, Les Momiex royales de Deir-el-Bahari, in the Mimoire de la Mission, vol. i. pp. 533, 535. AMENOTHES I. AND NOFKITABI. 95 to the Xofritari assumed the imtliority; after having shared theroyal honours for nearly tweuty-five years with her husband, she resolutelyrefused to resign She was thus the first of those queens by divineright who, scorning the inaction of the harem, took on themselves the right tofiillil the active duties of a sovereign, and claimed the recognition of theequality or superiority of their titles to those of their husbands or sons. The. COFFIN OF AHMOSIS IN THE GIZEH MUSEUM.^ aged Ahhotpu, who, like Nofritari, was of pure royal descent, and who mightwell have urged her superior rank, had been content to retire in favour of herchildren ; ?* she lived to the tenth year of her grandsons reign, respected by allher family, but abstaining from all interference in political affairs.^ When atlength she passed away, full of days and honour, she was embalmed withspecial care, and her body was placed in a gilded mummy-case, the head ofwhich presented a faithful copy of her features. Beside her were piled the The last date knowu is tliat of the year XXII. at Turah; cf. pp. J2, 93 of the preseut lists give, in one place, twenty-five years and four mouths after the expulsion ; in another,twenty-six years in round numbers, as the total duration of his reign (Mulleu-Didot, Friujmentallistoricorum Grxcorum, vol. ii. p. 572, et seq.), which has every appearance of
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