Ruler
Kamose
Last king of the Seventeenth Dynasty
c. 1555 – 1550 BCE
A short reign, approximately dated after Shaw (2000).
Biography
He led the war against the Hyksos northward. Two stelae he set up at Karnak tell of his campaign, including the story of Apepi’s intercepted letter to the ruler of Kush.
Key facts
Certainty: Established
Kamose’s second stela was found in 1954 in the foundation of a statue of Ramesses II in front of the Second Pylon at Karnak.
- K. S. B. Ryholt (1997) “The Political Situation in Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period, c. 1800–1550 B.C.” Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen