Ahmose - Definition and Overview

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 coped 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.