What is "thutmose"

"The King's Favourite and Master of Works, the Sculptor Thutmose" (also spelled Djhutmose and Thutmosis), flourished 1350 BC, is thought to have been the official court sculptor of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten in the latter part of his reign. A German archaeological expedition digging in Akhenaten's deserted city of Akhetaton, at Amarna, found a ruined house and studio complex (labeled P47.1-3) in early December 1912; the building was identified as that of Thutmose based on an ivory horse blinker found in a rubbish pit in the courtyard inscribed with his name and job title. Since it gave his occupation as "sculptor" and the building was clearly a sculpture workshop, it seemed a logical connection.

Thutmose (also rendered Thutmosis, Tuthmose, Tutmosis, Thothmes, Tuthmosis, Djhutmose, etc.) is an Anglicization of the Egyptian name dhwty-ms, usually translated as "Born of the god Thoth". It may refer to several individuals from the 18th Dynasty:

• Thutmose I (16th-century–c. 1490 BC), third pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty
• Thutmose II (fl. 1493–1479 BC), fourth pharaoh
• Thutmose III (fl. 1479–1425 BC), sixth pharaoh
• Thutmose IV (died 14th-century BC), eighth pharaoh
• Thutmose (Vizier 18th dynasty), Vizier during the reign of Thutmose IV
• Crown Prince Thutmose, the elder brother of Pharaoh Akhenaten
• Thutmose (sculptor) (fl. 1350 BC), Akhenaten's court sculptor at Amarna, to whom is attributed the famous Berlin bust of Nefertiti
• Thutmose (Vizier), Vizier during the latter part of the reign of Ramesses II during the 19th dynasty
• Tuthmose (Viceroy of Kush), the Viceroy of Kush during the reign of Akhenaten

Thutmose (or, more accurately, Djhutmose) was the eldest son of pharaoh Amenhotep III and Queen Tiye, who lived during the Eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. His apparent death led to the reign of Akhenaten, his younger brother—as the successor to the Egyptian throne—and the intrigues of the century leading up to Ramesses II, the start and ultimately the failure of Atenism, the Amarna letters, and the changing roles of kingdom's powers.

The Ancient Egyptian Noble Thutmose (Thutmosis) was Vizier during the latter part of the reign of Ramesses II during the 19th dynasty.

Thutmose may have been a vizier of the south around year 45 of Ramesses II's reign. Thutmose is mentioned in vizier Prehotep II's tomb in Sedment, which may indicate that their tenures as viziers may have overlapped or followed one another. Tuthmose is also known from an ostracon found in the Valley of the Kings in Thebes.

Thutmose was an ancient Egyptian vizier under Amenhotep III, during the 18th Dynasty.

As vizier of the North (i.e. of Lower Egypt), Thutmose officiated from Memphis, while his southern counterpart was based in Thebes. He was married to Tawy, and had at least two sons: Ptahmose, who became High Priest of Ptah in Memphis, and Meryptah, who later assumed many titles such as prophet and chief steward of the Mortuary Temple of Amenhotep III.

Thutmose is depicted along with his son Ptahmose on a false door-shaped stele now in Florence (inv. 2565). He is mentioned also on a broken stele from Memphis, dedicated to his sons; the two portions of this stele are located in the British Museum and in Leiden respectively.