THOTHMES, thoth/mez or t6Vmes (Egyptian Dhuti-mose, son of Thoth; Gk. Tohtlywaic, Touth mosis) or TAIIUTIASES. The name of four of Egypt of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
TinrritstEs 1. was the son and successor of Amenophis I. (q.v.) and ascended the throne about B.C. 1560. According to Manetho, as cited by Africanus. he reigned for 22 years, though no date higher than his ninth regal year has as yet been found upon the monuments. The first recorded military expedition of Thothmes I. was directed against the Nubians, whom he defeated, returning in triumph to Thebes with the body of their chief hanging from the bow of his ship. In his third year he found it neces sary to chastise the Nubian tribes in another expedition. Not long after this he invaded Asia and, marching as far as the Euphrates, set up a stele which was later seen and mentioned by Thothmes III. The remainder of his reign seems to have been peaceful and was largely de voted to building operations. At Karnak (q.v.) he built two pylons and two hypostyle balls, and erected two obelisks, one of which (76 feet high) is still standing. (See OBELISK.) He also con structed buildings in the necropolis of Thebes, at Abydos, at lbrim (a rock-hewn chapel), and at other places. The coffin of Thothmes 1. was
found in 1881 at Deir el-Bahri, but whether the mummy it contained is that of the King is not altogether certain.
IL, the son and successor of Thoth Ines I., reigned for at least nine years, accord ing to the monuments, and according to Manetho for twelve or thirteen years. An inscription at dated in the first year of his reign, states that he sent an expedition against the Nubian tribes who had raided his territory, and he seems to have fought against the Asiatic Bedouin, but be undertook no extensive wars. He made additions to the great Temple of Am mon at Karnak, and his name is inscribed upon buildings in many parts of Egypt. The mummy of the King, found in 1881 at Deir el-Bahri, is that of a young man, apparently not over thirty years of age. His sister and wife, the ablcf and energetic Hatshepset (see HATASU), was coregent with him throughout his reign, and was the real ruler of the kingdom.