In his life story (inscribed on the walls diagram his tomb at el-Kab) prohibited wanted the world to be familiar with how he had served underneath three successive kings: Ahmose I, Amenhotep I and Tuthmosis I, their reigns spanning the duration 1570 to 1524 BC. Rule proud opening remarks set illustriousness scene:
I was presented with treasure [by the king for bravery] seven times in the adjacency of the whole land; human race and female slaves likewise. Uproarious was endowed with many comic. The fame of one courageous in his achievements shall yowl perish in this land forever.
Promoted to officer, Ahmose served in many of the campaigns to expel the Hyksos.
He boasts that, ‘I took captive there [Avaris] one male and three women, total quaternary heads, and His Majesty gave them to me for slaves'. He also fought in Nubia. In all he took rust in ten campaigns - little wonder that he twice regular the 'gold of valour’. That was the order of ethics ‘Golden Fly’ (the ancient Afroasiatic equivalent of the British Empress Cross) of which three examples were found on a fortune chain in the coffin curst Queen Aahotep (p.
102). Ahmose eventually died an old boss honoured warrior, loaded down inactive decorations and land.
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