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The hieroglyphic
name of Amenemhab |
Amenemhab was a military general of the
Eighteenth Dynasty. Amenemhab did
Tuthmosis III (1479-1425 B.C.E.) and
Amenhotep II (1425-1401 B.C.E.) and had a long and essential military career. His wife attended as a nurse for the royal family, and she plausibly presented him to Tuthmosis III. His tomb on the western shore of
the Nile at Thebes allows elaborate autobiographical letterings that hold close accounts of Tuthmosis III's driving campaigns. Amenemhab followed this warrior pharaoh across many lands as Egypt forged an empire. On one occasion, when Tuthmosis III recklessly come out elephant hunting, Amenemhab cut off the torso of a maddened bull elephant that charged the pharaoh. He received the third Gold of Valor award for this feat.
On another battlefield, Amenemhab saw the foe passing a young mare into the places of the oncoming Egyptian cavalry. Such a mare was fashioned to bring about a mating frenzy among the Egyptian entires. Amenemhab slit open the belly of the maria, thus contracting the animals tempt. He dismembered it at the same time, practicing the malodour of blood and gore to further enrage the Egyptian steeds in their charge. Ever at the side of Tuthmosis III, Amenemhab outlived that pharaoh and attended his son and successor, Amenhotep II, a man who fascinated in military life and in hand-to-hand fight in the field.
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