Princess Ahmose was buried in the tomb QV47 in the Valley of the Queens. Her tomb is considered the first constructed in the Valley of the Queens. The tomb is simple and consists of one chamber and a burial shaft. The tomb is in a subsidiary valley named the Valley of Prince Ahmose. Ernesto Schiaparelli discovered the mummy of Princess Ahmose during his excavations from 1903 to 1905. Her mummy is now in the Egyptian Museum of Turin, Italy. Besides the mummy, Schiaparelli also found funerary items, including a fragment of her coffin, leather sandals, and fragments of a piece of linen inscribed with some 20 chapters of the Book of the Dead. All of these items are housed in Turin.
Princess Ahmose
Ahmose (“Child of the Moon”) was a princess of the Seventeenth Dynasty of Egypt. She was the only known daughter of Seqenenre Tao (the Brave) by his sister-wife Sitdjehuti. She was the half-sister of Pharaoh Ahmose I and Queen Ahmose-Nefertari. Her titles are King’s Daughter and King’s Sister.
