Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . ssignment, and, from the addition of the symbol nibi,all, to be the prenomen of another king—a point, at the least, doubtful; indeed, nonecan be more difficult to solve than that of the great historical enigma attached to thesecartouches. The probability seems to be, that the cartouche prenominal, Re-mei-ka, wasassumed by Amense on the death of her brother Amenophis I.; that she was allied in thesovereignty witli his brothers Thothmes I. and II., and held the regency during the early partof the reign of Tliothiiies III., when she chang
Gallery of antiquities, selected from the British Museum . ssignment, and, from the addition of the symbol nibi,all, to be the prenomen of another king—a point, at the least, doubtful; indeed, nonecan be more difficult to solve than that of the great historical enigma attached to thesecartouches. The probability seems to be, that the cartouche prenominal, Re-mei-ka, wasassumed by Amense on the death of her brother Amenophis I.; that she was allied in thesovereignty witli his brothers Thothmes I. and II., and held the regency during the early partof the reign of Tliothiiies III., when she changed her name from Amense to that of Amoun-noum-hc; that her brotlicr, having ejected her from power, carefully erased throughout thepublic monuments all the inscriptions in which she had been associated with him on the throne. I Mannrrs and Customs, Ser. I. vol. i. | Rosel. loc. cit. Pag. (Tav.) vi. 103. I Cf. Burton Kxr. Ilicr. pi. x\%v. » Roael. Mon. Hier. torn. i. p. 221. I c. p. 226. | » Wilk. lopojjrajiby of Miebes, p. 510. PLATE 32, -J 0 /t-- \\. t^llO
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