Introduction
Queen Ahmose was the Great Royal Wife of Thutmose I and mother of Hatshepsut; the Deir el-Bahari birth-cycle reliefs present her as the mortal woman visited by the god Amun, disguised as her own husband, to conceive a divinely fathered daughter.
Family
- Spouse: Thutmose I (married)
- Children: Hatshepsut
Mother of a Contested Pharaoh
The relief cycle depicts Ahmose's pregnancy and the child's presentation to the assembled gods as future ruler of Egypt in unusually explicit and elaborate detail for a royal woman, underscoring how central this specific legitimation narrative was to Hatshepsut's own claim to rule as a woman occupying the traditionally male office of pharaoh.
This article records a specific literary or theological role — a king-list entry, a court tale, or a royal legitimation narrative — rather than the deity's or ruler's fuller religious identity, which (where applicable) is covered in the separate Egyptian Pantheon project.