king Amenhotep I

Amenhotep I (Amenophis I) (about 1525-1504 BC)

Second king of the Eighteenth Dynasty. In many respects he completed the work of Ahmose in redeveloping the country. A campaign against Nubia is attested. The building activity of the king concentrated on Thebes (calcite shrine in Karnak), but is also attested at other places such as Abydos and Elkab.

Horus name: Kauwaftau
Nebty name: Aaneru
Golden Falcon name: Wahrenput
Prenomen: Djeserkare
Nomen: Amenhotep

Burial place: Unknown, most probably Thebes

Attestations in the Petrie Museum:

faience cartouche UC 11895

Further Attestations:

Blocks found in the temple of Elkab (El Kab 1940: pl. 19, 25)
Mentioned in the biography of Ahmose Paennekheb at Elkab (Sethe 1906: 34-40)
Gateway at Karnak (Sethe 1906: 42-43, 49)
Dating of the inscription of the king's son of Kush Turi at Uronarti (Sethe 1906: 78)

In Thebes Amenhotep I and his mother Ahmes-Nefertari were worshipped as local deities.

stela from Thebes

Bibliography:

Bryan 2000: 223-230
Schmitz 1978 (a monograph on the king and his reign)