all their sisters, born of marriages which to us appear
incestuous, took precedence of them, and the eldest daughter became the
legitimate Pharaoh, who sat in the seat of Horus on the death of her
father, or even occasionally during his lifetime. The prince whom she
married governed for her, and discharged those royal duties which could
be legally performed by a man only,--such as offering worship to the
supreme gods, commanding the army, and administering justice; but his
wife never ceased to be sovereign, and however small the intelligence
or firmness of which she might be possessed, her husband was obliged
to leave to her, at all events on certain occasions, the direction of
affairs.

[Illustration: 109.jpg NOFRITARI, FROM TUE WOODEN STATUETTE IN THE TURIN
MUSEUM]

Drawn by Faucher-Gudin, from a photograph by Plinders
Petrie.

At her death her children inherited the crown: their father had formally
to invest the eldest of them with royal, authority in the room of the
deceased, and with him he shared the externals, if not the reality, of
power.* It is doubtful whether the third Saq-nunri Tiuaa known to us--he
who added an epithet to his name, and was commonly known as Tiuaqni,
"Tiuaa the brave"** --united in his person all the requisites of a
Pharaoh qualified to reign in his own right. However this may have been,
at all events his wife, Queen Ahhotpu, possessed them.

* Thus we find Thutmosis I. formally enthroning his daughter
Hat-shopsitu, towards the close of his reign.

** It would seem that the epithet Qeni ( = the brave, the
robust) did not form an indispensable part of his name, any
more than Ahmosi did of the names of members of the family
of Ahmosis, the conqueror of the Shepherds. It is to him
that the Tiuaa cartouche refers, which is to be found on the
statue mentioned by Daninos-Pasha, published by Bouriant,
and on which we find Ahmosis, a princess of the same name,
together with Queen Ahhotpu I.

His eldest son Ahmosu died prematurely; the two younger brothers, Kamosu
and a second Ahmosu, the Amosis of the Greeks, assumed the crown after
him. It is possible, as frequently happened, that their young sister
Ahmasi-Nofritari entered the harem of both brothers consecutively.

[Illustration: 110.jpg THE HEAD OF SAQNURI]

Drawn by Bouclier, from a photograph by Emil Brugsch-Bey.

We cannot be sure that she was united to Kamosu, but at