Ahmose
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This name may refer to (amongst others):
- Ahmose I, a pharaoh of ancient Egypt and founder of the Eighteenth dynasty.
- Amasis (also known as Ahmose II), a pharaoh of the Twenty-sixth dynasty.
- Ahmose, son of Ebana, an ancient Egyptian admiral who served in the Seventeeth and Eighteenth dynasties.
- Ahmose, an ancient Egyptian scribe of the Second Intermediate Period who copied the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus; historians of mathematics often refer to him as Ahmes, using an older transcription of his name
In the Egyptian language the name literally means the moon god "Iah is Born"; it is transliterated as ỉˁḥ-ms.
