Thutmoside

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English

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Etymology

Possibly from Thutmose +‎ French -ide (English -id), after Ramesside; compare French thoutmôside.

Adjective

Thutmoside (comparative more Thutmoside, superlative most Thutmoside)

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Thutmoside Dynasty of ancient Egyptian history.
    • 2004, Marsha Hill, “Royal Bronzes dated to Phase A by inscription, and other dated comparanda”, in Royal Bronze Statuary from Ancient Egypt: With Special Attention to the Kneeling Pose (Egyptological Memoirs; 3), Leiden; Boston, Mass.: Styx/Koninklijke Brill NV, →ISBN, “Third Intermediate Period” chapter, part I (Dating Issues), “Dating of Royal Bronzes” section, pages 27–28:
      he small Menkheperre sphinx has: features which, though the face has been called Thutmoside, are heavier and in profile more markedly curved than anything from early dynasty 18 or even among the statues or coffin images listed above and clearly datable to Phase A. It could aptly be described as exaggerating Thutmoside/early Ramesside elements and is in some ways comparable to pieces from Phase B, for example, the small gold triad of Osorkon II (TIP-A; plate 12).
    • 2005, Edna R. Russmann, “Art in Transition: The Rise of the Eighteenth Dynasty and the Emergence of the Thutmoside Style in Sculpture and Relief”, in Catharine H. Roehrig, Renée Dreyfus, Cathleen A. Keller, editors, Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh, New York, N.Y.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, part I (Setting the Scene), page 24, column 1:
      Though the statue of Sebekemsaf I in the British Museum does not at all resemble Thutmoside sculpture, it exhibits many core features of the Thutmoside style.
    • 2025, Martin Bommas, “The Empire at Its Height—From Thutmosis III to Amenhotep III”, in Tutankhamun: A Biography (Routledge Ancient Biographies), Abingdon, Oxfordshire; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 11:
      With the death of Tutankhamun in 1322 BCE, the line of Thutmoside kings came to an end. The Amarna period but also the reign of Tutankhamun are both unthinkable without the wealth the Thutmoside wars brought to Egypt.

Noun

Thutmoside (plural Thutmosides)

  1. Any of the pharaohs of the Thutmoside Dynasty of ancient Egyptian history.
    • 1900, James Henry Breasted, “Introduction”, in A New Chapter in the Life of Thutmose III (Untersuchungen zur Geschichte und Altertumskunde Aegyptens; II, 2), Leipzig: J C Hinrichs’sche Buchhandlung, →OCLC, page 5:
      The relations of the first four Thutmosides have been more searchingly examined and discussed than those of any Egyptian kings;
    • 1946 February, George B Wilbur, “The Reciprocal Relationship of Man and His Ideological Milieu: A Primal Scene from Ancient Egypt and Its Role in the Genesis of a Cosmology”, in Hanns Sachs, editor, The American Imago: A Psychoanalytic Journal for the Arts and Sciences, volume 3, number 4, Boston, Mass.: Hanns Sachs, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 32:
      He was the old god associated with the locality of Thebes and with the rise to power of the Thutmosides, the local leading family, an event which followed the expulsion of the Shepard Kings, Amun-Re became the chief god in the hierarchy and King of the Gods.
    • 2014, Libbie Hawker, “Historical Note”, in The Sekhmet Bed (The She-King; 1), Seattle, Wash.: Running Rabbit Press, →ISBN:
      She was probably not Ahmose’s sister, and almost definitely not an elder sister, but I liked the tension such a twist brought to my fictional portrayal of the Thutmosides.