Aah-hetep I

Wife of Seqenen-Ra III, an obscure king of the end of Dynasty XVII, and mother of Aahmes I, first king of the XVIIIth Dynasty. In 1860, the diggers of M. Mariette discovered at Thebes the coffin of this queen, but M. Mariette being unfortunately absent at the time, the mummy was robbed of many valuable articles. The coffin cover is in the shape of a mummy, and is gilt from top to bottom. The articles found in the coffin included a double-hinged bracelet with gold figures, on a groundwork of blue enamel; a large bracelet opening with a hinge; an axe with a handle of cedar-wood covered with gold-leaf and ornamented with lapis lazuli, carnelian and turquoise; a dagger in a sheath of gold; a gold chain with pendant scarabaeus; a large gold collar with hawks’ heads at each end, etc. These objects are now in the Cairo Museum.