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 all events she became the wife of Ahmosis, and the rights which she possessed, together with those which her husband had inherited from their mother Ahhotpu, gave him a legal claim such as was seldom enjoyed by the Pharaohs of that period, so many of them being sovereigns merely de facto, while he was doubly king by right.

Tiuaqni, Kamosu,* and Ahmosis** quickly succeeded each other.  Tiuaqni very probably waged war against the Shepherds, and it is not known whether he fell upon the field of battle or was the victim of some plot; the appearance of his mummy proves that he died a violent death when about forty years of age.  Two or three men, whether assassins or soldiers, must have surrounded and despatched him before help was available.  A blow from an axe must have severed part of his left cheek, exposed the teeth, fractured the jaw, and sent him senseless to the ground; another blow must have seriously injured the skull, and a dagger or javelin has cut open the forehead on the right side, a little above the eye.  His body must have remained lying where it fell for some time:  when found, decomposition had set in, and the embalming had to be hastily performed as best it might.  The hair is thick, rough, and matted; the face had been shaved on the morning of his death, but by touching the cheek we can ascertain how harsh and abundant the hair must