AncientPages.com - A limestone stela of liberation has been discovered by Egyptian archaeologists excavating in Kom Ombo temple area dated back to Early 18thDynasty or the Liberation war period.
The stela has a scene in the upper lunette shows two persons making an offering to Queen Tetisheri and Queen Ahmos-Nefertari,” said Dr. Mostafa Waziry, Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities.
Stela of liberation. Image credit: Ministry of Antiquities
The stele shows Queen Tetisheri titles as “Mother of the King” and “Lady of the Two Lands”.
Experts say the discovery is of great importance because it shows the activities of the Kings in Upper Egypt to secure their territories during their way with the Hyksos. This discovery is a part of the series of discoveries that could re-date the temple to an older date than it was previously known.
Queen Tetisheri is the mother of King Seqenenre and the grandmother of King Ahmose I and she is the one who inspired them the liberation spirit.
Stela of liberation. Image credit: Ministry of Antiquities
Tetisheri was very well respected and dignified by the Egyptians for her great role in the Egyptian history,” according to the experts.
Tetisheri (c.1590-1540 BC) was the wife of the 17. th-Dynasty Thehan ruler Senakhtenra Taa I and mother of Seqenenra Taa II, who appears to have been of non-royal origin. She survived until the early 18th Dynasty and, like her descendants, Ahhotep I and Ahmose Nefertari, seems to have been an unusually influential woman.
Queen Tetisheri and Queen Ahmos-Nefertari. Compiled by AncientPages.com
Her grandson, Ahmose I, established cenotaphs and funerary estates for both himself and Tetisheri at Abydos, where she was granted a posthumous cult as the most important female ancestor of the 18th Dynasty rulers.
Ahmose-Nefertari was the first Queen of the 18th Dynasty. She was a daughter of Seqenenre Tao and Ahhotep I, and royal sister and the great royal wife of pharaoh, Ahmose I. She was the mother of king Amenhotep I and may have served as his regent when he was young. Ahmose-Nefertari was deified after her death.
The two queens are of the most important female figures in the history of ruling families in Egypt and had many stelae and chapels dedicated to them all over Egypt,” Abd El-Monem Said, Director of Aswan Antiquities informed.
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