Reign

Statue of Amenhotep II preserved at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

	Amenhotep II
Period	New Kingdom
Dynasty	Eighteenth Dynasty
Function	Seventh pharaoh of the dynasty
Predecessor	Thutmose III
Takeover	Natural death of his father
Dates of reign	-1454 to -1419 (by DB Redford ) -1453 to -1419 (by EF Wente ) -1439 to -1413 (according to RA Parker ) -1438 to -1412 (as E. Hornung ) -1436 to -1413 (by AH Gardiner ) -1428 to -1397 (as J. von Beckerath ) -1427 to -1396 (by KA Kitchen ) -1427 to -1393 (by C. Aldred ) -1426 to -1400 (by R. Krauss & WJ Murnane ) -1425 to -1401 (by N. Grimal ) -1424 to -1398 (as AD Dodson ) -1413 to -1388 (as HW Helck )
Duration of reign
Successor	Thutmose IV
Transfer of power	Natural death
Burial	Not Found
Date Discovered	Unknown
Discoverer	Unknown
Excavated by	?

Mounted on "the throne of Horus of the living "at the age of eighteen years, he was able to maintain the integrity of the empire through a policy of extreme brutality.

If one believes the stele of the Sphinx in Giza , he was gifted with extraordinary physical strength. Thus, on his team, "like Montu in his power, he pierced with his arrows four targets in a copper fin thickness ,

"This was certainly a feat that had never been done since the world exists, or that we had never heard tell that to shoot an arrow against a copper target, it came out and should fall ground. "

In year 3 (or 7) of his reign, Amenhotep II began his "first season victories" in the region Takhsy . He arrived on the banks of the Orontes , he forded. Then he went down south and reached Niy and Kadesh , whose princes gave allegiance. After a raid against Khashabou , where the king himself took prisoners twenty-six Maryannou , the victorious army returned to Memphis , "Her Majesty is like a powerful bull." The bodies of six princes enemies that King was shot with a club were exhibited at Thebes ; seventh body was attached to the wall of Napata "to make manifest the victories of His Majesty, for eternal time and time infinity, in the plains and mountains all Nubian .

In year 9, the ^25th day of the ^3rd month of the season akhet , King returned to Palestine , perhaps urgent, as the campaign took place "at a time when men's presence was necessary for the work fields " . He attacked the town of Yehem , took Anaharta that plundered and arrived at Megiddo, which he replaced by a prince of the faithful. At the end of the campaign, he could return to Egypt "89 600 people, with their innumerable properties, all the cattle belonging to them, and endless herds" . The kings of Mitanni , the Hittites and Babylonia , when they had knowledge of his triumph, he did this "all products of .

Although the living conditions of our classes is mostly outside, Egypt of Amenhotep II / Abbr> gives an impression of prosperity, largely due to the supply-dependent countries, placed "under the sandals of His Majesty," and a workforce that provides the many prisoners of war. The administrative apparatus, well established, was run by dedicated public servants, the king's childhood friends or comrades in arms: Ousersatet, the "son of Kush, who had taken part in" winning campaigns, "Menkhperrseneb, who had already served Tuthmosis III Sennefer , the mayor of Thebes, whose tomb says "vines" is one of the most richly decorated in the Theban necropolis, or Qnamon, Director of Treasury and "responsible for all the northern countries.

Unlike Thutmose III , Amenhotep II was hardly a "builder king". Indeed, a considerable part of his architectural work was to complete the shrines of its predecessor, including Amada , at Elephantine and El Kab. At Karnak , it was represented on the south side of 8 ^thpylon in the attitude of Pharaoh ritual killing of foreign captives. Elsewhere on the site, it only remains of his work as the flag -Sed festival between 9 ^th and 10 ^th pylons. Various pieces reused in buildings attest to his successors, however, a more ambitious construction program, which we are however difficult to gauge their importance.

At his death the crown passed to his son Thutmose IV , born of the lady TIAA ^Burial

Amenhotep II - Tomb of Amenhotep II

He had installed his "house of eternity", one of the most beautiful in the Theban necropolis, the Valley of the Kings ( KV 35 ). Victor Loret, who fumbled in 1898, discovered the mummy intact, an unusual size.

Besides his mummy, which remained in place , part of his funerary objects, stripped of all ornament, however valuable, was found there: model boats, chests, stone vases, funerary statues of wood covered with a layer asphalt, wooden statues of sacred animals, Oushebti, pottery and other objects.

In supporting documents to the royal burial chamber, Victor Loret discovered nearly a dozen royal mummies that had been moved by the priests of the ^twenty-first dynasty to preserve them for the last time looting.

This is the second of the two royal stamp that will rediscover the greater part of the remains of the royal New Kingdom .

Notes

Bibliography

• A. Varille, The large stele of Amenophis II at Giza, French Institute of Oriental Archaeology , coll. "BIFAO 41", 1942 ;
• AH Gardiner , Egypt of the Pharaohs, Oxford University Press, 1974 ;
• Claire Lalouette , Thebes, or The Birth of an Empire

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Chronological order	Predynastic Period Period protodynastic Dynasty Zero Horus Serekh Horus Ny-Hor Horus Hat-Hor Horus Iry-Ro Horus Ka Horus Scorpion Period Thinite First dynasty Meni ( Menes ) Horus Narmer Horus Aha (Athothis, Atot, Teti) Horus Djer (kenkeni Horus Zer, It, Iti ITIT) Horus Ouadja (Ounphs Horus Wadjy , Iterty, Ita) Horus Den (Ousaphas Horus Oudimou) Horus Adjibi (Mibis, cowpea, Horus Enezib) Horus Smerkhet (Smepss, Semenpss, Semenptah) Horus Qa (Oubianths, Bienechs, Qaa Horus, Horus Kaa) Second Dynasty Hetepsekhemwy (Hetepsekhmoui, Hotep) Nebra (Nebra Reneb, Noubnfer) Ninette (Ninetfer, Binothris, Binthus) Ouneg (Ouadnes) Snedj (Send) Horus Sekhmeb (Tlas) Seth Peribit Sen ( Peribsen Nferkar ) Khsekhmem Khaskhemouy Djadjay Old Kingdom Third Dynasty Nebka ( Senakht ?) Senakht Djoser Sekhemkhet ( Msochris ) Khaba Nferkar Huni ( Nferkar ?) Fourth Dynasty Snefru Koufou ( Cheops ) Djedefre Kephren ( Chephren ) Menkaure ( Menkaure ) Chepseskaf Fifth Dynasty Userkaf Sahu Nferirfar Chepseskar Neferefre Niuserre Menkaouhor Djedkare-ized Unas Sixth Dynasty Teti Ouserkar Pepi I. Merenre I. Pepi II Merenre II Nitokris I re interim Seventh Dynasty Netjerkar (Netjerikar, Nferkar the Younger) Menkar Nferkar II Nferkar Neby (Nferkar III) Djedkare Shema (Djedkare II) Nferkar Khendou (Nferkar IV) Mrienhor Nferkamin (Menrenhor) Nferkamin Nykar (Nikara) Nferkar Tereru (Nferkar Tererou V) Nferkahor Eighth Dynasty Nferkar Pepiseneb Anu Nferkamin Qakar-Ibi Nferkaour Nferkaouhor Neferirkare II Skemkar Ouadjkar Ity Imhotep Hotep Khoui (Chou) Isou Iytenou Ninth Dynasty Mribr Khety I. Merikare Nferkar VII Khety II Khety III Khety IV Tenth Dynasty Khety V Khety VI Khety VII Merikare I. Eleventh dynasty Theban I. Mentuhotep ( Mentuhotep I. ) Antef I. Antef II Antef III Middle Kingdom Eleventh dynasty Theban Mentuhotep II ( Mentuhotep II ) Mentuhotep III ( Mentuhotep III ) Mentuhotep IV ( Mentuhotep IV ) Twelfth Dynasty Amenemhat I. Sesostris I. Amenemhat II Sesostris II Sesostris III Amenemhat III Amenemhat IV Nfrousbek Second Intermediate Period Thirteenth Dynasty Sobekhotep I. Sobekhotep II Sobekhotep III Sobekhotep IV Sobekhotep V Sobekhotep VI Sobekhotep VII Sobekhotep VIII Sobekhotep IX Fourteenth Dynasty Hyksos Antef IV Mentuhotep V Mentuhotep VI Amenemhat V Amenemhat VI Amenemhat VII XV Dynasty Hyksos Salatis Yakhouba Har- Khyan Apophis I. Khamudi Apophis II ? Sixteenth Dynasty Hyksos XVII th Dynasty Theban Antef V Rahotep Sobekemsaf II Djehuty Mentuhotep VII Nbiryaou I. Antef VII Snakhtenr Tao I. Sqnenr Tao II Kamose Ahmose (Ahmose, Ahmose before the reunification of Egypt) New Kingdom Eighteenth Dynasty Ahmose I. Amenhotep I (Amenophis Djserkar) Thutmose I. (akhprkar Thutmose) Tuthmosis II (Thutmose akheprenr) Hatshepsut (Hatshepsut Hatshepsut) Tuthmosis III (Thutmose Menkheperre) Amenhotep II (Amenophis akhprour) Thutmose IV (Menkhprour Thutmose) Amenhotep III (Amenophis Nebmaatre) Amenhotep IV (Amenophis Nferkhprour) then Akhenaten Nfernfrouaton ? Smenkhkare Tutankhaten then Tutankhamun A Horemheb Nineteenth dynasty Ramses I Seti I. Ramses II Merneptah Seti II Amenmes Siptah Taousert XX th Dynasty Setnakht Ramses III Ramses IV Ramesses V Ramses VI Ramses VII Ramesses VIII Ramesses IX Ramses X Ramses XI Herihor Third Intermediate Period Twenty-first Dynasty of Tanis Smendes Pinudjem I. (co-Pharaoh at Thebes) Amenemnesout Psusennes I. Amenemope Osorkon former Siamon Psusennes II XXII dynasty of Bubastis Shishak I. Osorkon I. Shishak II Takelot Osorkon II Takelot II Shishak III Pimay Shishak IV Dynasty of high priests of Amun at Thebes, parallel to the twenty-first and XXII Dynasties XXIII Dynasty of Tanis Petubastis I. Ioupout Shishak V Osorkon III Takelot III Roudamon Ioupout II Osorkon IV XXIV Dynasty of Tanis Tefnakht Bakenranef (Bocchoris) Late Period XXV dynasty Kushite Piankhy Shabaka (Shabaka) Shabataka (Chabataka) Taharqa Tanwetamani (Tantamana) XXVI Dynasty Saite Necho I. Psammetichus I. Necho II Psammetichus II Apries Amasis Psammetichus III XXVII dynasty Persia Cambyses II Smerdis (MAGI) Darius I Xerxes I Artaxerxes I. Xerxes II Sogdianus Darius II Artaxerxes II Dynasty XXVIII Amyrte Dynasty XXIX Nphrits Psammouthis Achoris Nphrits II XXX Dynasty Nectanebo I. Teos (Tachos) Nectanebo II XXXI Dynasty Persia Artaxerxes III Arses Darius III Alexander the Great Ptolemaic dynasty Ptolemy I Soter Ptolemy II Philadelphus Ptolemy III Evergetes Ptolemy IV Philopator Ptolemy V Epiphanes Ptolemy VI Philometor Ptolemy VII Neos Philopator Ptolemy VIII Evergetes II Ptolemy IX Soter II Ptolemy X Alexander Ptolemy IX Soter II Ptolemy XI Alexander II Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos Berenice IV Ptolemy XII Neos Dionysos Cleopatra VII Ptolemy XIII Dionysus Ptolemy XIV Philopator II Ptolemy XV Caesarion a href = "% C3% P A9riode_romaine_de_l% 27% C3% 89gypte" alt = "Roman Period of Egypt"> Roman Dynasty
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