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Amenhotep III (Hellenized as Amenophis III; Egyptian Amāna-Ḥātpa; meaning ''Amun is Satisfied'') also known as Amenhotep the Magnificent was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth dynasty. According to different authors, he ruled Egypt from June 1386 to 1349 BC or June 1388 BC to December 1351 BC/1350 BC〔Beckerath, Jürgen von, Chronologie des Pharaonischen Ägypten. Philipp von Zabern, Mainz, (1997) p.190〕 after his father Thutmose IV died. Amenhotep III was the son of Thutmose by a minor wife Mutemwiya.〔O'Connor, David & Cline, Eric. Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign, University of Michigan Press, 1998, p.3〕 His reign was a period of unprecedented prosperity and artistic splendour, when Egypt reached the peak of its artistic and international power. When he died in the 38th or 39th year of his reign, his son initially ruled as Amenhotep IV, but then changed his own royal name to Akhenaten. ==Family== The son of the future Thutmose IV (the son of Amenhotep II) and a minor wife Mutemwiya, Amenhotep was born around 1388 BC.〔Fletcher (2000), p.10〕 He was a member of the Thutmosid family that had ruled Egypt for almost 150 years since the reign of Thutmose I. Amenhotep III was the father of two sons with his Great Royal Wife Tiye through her first son, Crown Prince Thutmose, who predeceased his father, and her second son, Amenhotep IV, later known as Akhenaten, who ultimately succeeded Amenhotep III to the throne. Amenhotep III also may have been the father of a third child—called Smenkhkare, who later would succeed Akhenaten and briefly rule Egypt as pharaoh. Amenhotep III and Tiye may also have had four daughters: Sitamun, Henuttaneb, Isis or Iset, and Nebetah.〔O'Connor, David & Cline, Eric., p.7〕 They appear frequently on statues and reliefs during the reign of their father and also are represented by smaller objects—with the exception of Nebetah.〔Kozloff, Arielle. & Bryan, Betsy. Royal and Divine Statuary in Egypt's Dazzling Sun: Amenhotep III and his World, (Cleveland, 1992), nos. 24, 57, 103 & 104〕 Nebetah is attested only once in the known historical records on a colossal limestone group of statues from Medinet Habu.〔Kozloff & Bryan, fig. II, 5〕 This huge sculpture, that is seven meters high, shows Amenhotep III and Tiye seated side by side, "with three of their daughters standing in front of the throne—Henuttaneb, the largest and best preserved, in the centre; Nebetah on the right; and another, whose name is destroyed, on the left."〔 Amenhotep III elevated two of his four daughters—Sitamun and Isis—to the office of "great royal wife" during the last decade of his reign. Evidence that Sitamun already was promoted to this office by Year 30 of his reign, is known from jar-label inscriptions uncovered from the royal palace at Malkata.〔 It should be noted that Egypt's theological paradigm encouraged a male pharaoh to accept royal women from several different generations as wives to strengthen the chances of his offspring succeeding him.〔Troy, Lana. Patterns of Queenship in Ancient Egyptian Myth and History. University of Uppsala, Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilizations 14, (1986), 103, 107, 111〕 The goddess Hathor herself was related to Ra as first the mother and later wife and daughter of the god when he rose to prominence in the pantheon of the Ancient Egyptian religion.〔 Hence, Amenhotep III's marriage to his two daughters should not be considered unlikely based on contemporary views of marriage. ---- Amenhotep III is known to have married several foreign women: * Gilukhepa, the daughter of Shuttarna II of Mitanni, in the tenth year of his reign.〔Dodson, Aidan & Hilton, Dyan The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, Thames & Hudson (2004), p.155〕 * Tadukhepa, the daughter of his ally Tushratta of Mitanni, Around Year 36 of his reign.〔Fletcher (2000), p.156〕〔 * A daughter of Kurigalzu, king of Babylon.〔Grajetzki, Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Golden House Publications, London, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9547218-9-3〕 * A daughter of Kadashman-Enlil, king of Babylon.〔 * A daughter of Tarhundaradu, ruler of Arzawa.〔 * A daughter of the ruler of Ammia (in modern Syria).〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Amenhotep III」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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