Kamose

Kamose

Kamose or King Kamose of the Seventeenth Dynasty during the Second Intermediate Period (1555-1550 BC). He was the son of King Seqenenre Tao II, Kamose won his father after the latter was popped in battle. He learned on the tax of driving out the Hyksos encroachers with exuberance and purpose, and appears to have affected them back to their fastness in Avaris. The Hyksos king Apepi wrote to the king of Kush inspiring him to attack Kamose, but his message was intercepted and the Kushites remained inactive.

Votive Barque of Kamose

Kamoses rule, though influential in contributing to the ejection of the Hyksos, was comparatively brief. He was succeeded by his brother, Ahmose, who was a child at the time of his entree. When he given his majority, however, he accomplished the work begun by his father and elder brother, driving the Hyksos out of Egypt and ushering in the Eighteenth Dynasty.

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