eir own forefathers had reduced to ruins.* The bas-reliefs sculptured
on the stelae of Ahmosis show them in full activity under the _corvee;_
we see here the stone block detached from the quarry being squared by
the chisel, or transported on a sledge drawn by oxen.

* The _Fankhui_ are, properly speaking, all white prisoners,
without distinction of race. Their name is derived from the
root _fokhu, fankhu_ = to bind, press, carry off, steal,
destroy; if it is sometimes used in the sense of
Phoenicians, it is only in the Ptolemaic epoch. Here the
term "Fankhui" refers to the Shepherds and Asiatics made
prisoners in the campaign of the year V. against Sharuhana.

Ahmosis had several children by his various wives; six at least owned
Nofritari for their mother and possessed near claims to the crown, but
she may have borne him others whose existence is unrecorded. The eldest
appears to have been a son, Sipiri; he received all the honours due to
an hereditary prince, but died without having reigned, and his second
brother, Amenhotpu--called by the Greeks Amenothes*--took his place.

* The form Amenophis, which is usually employed, is,
properly speaking, the equivalent of the name
_Amenemaupitu,_ or Amenaupiti, which belongs to a king of
the XXIst Tanite dynasty; the true Greek transcription of
the Ptolemaic epoch, corresponding to the pronunciation
_Amehotpe,_ or _Amenhopte,_ is Amenothes. Under the XVIIIth
dynasty the cuneiform transcription of the tablets of Tel-el
Amarna, Amankhatbi, seems to indicate the pronunciation
Amanhautpi, Amanhatpi, side by side with the pronunciation
Aman-hautpu, Amenhotpu.

Ahmosis was laid to rest in the chapel which he had prepared for himself
in the cemetery of Drah-abu'l-Neggah, among the modest pyramids of the
XIth, XIIIth, and XVIIth dynasties.* He was venerated as a god, and
his cult was continued for six or eight centuries later, until the
increasing insecurity of the Theban necropolis at last necessitated
the removal of the kings from their funeral chambers.** The coffin of
Ahmosis was found to be still intact, though it was a poorly made one,
shaped to the contours of the body, and smeared over with yellow; it
represents the king with the false beard depending from his chin, and
his breast covered with a pectoral ornament, the features, hair,
and accessories being picked out in blue. His name has be