The complexity of the whole question of royal gender and its status in ancient Egypt is illustrated by the inscription amosis (reigned c. 1570-1546 bc), founder of the eighteenth dynasty and new kingdom, had carved on stele at karnak to his mother ahotep this describes her as one who cares for Egypt. She has looked after egypt’s soldiers, she has brought back her fugitives, and collected together her deserters, she has pacified upper Egypt, and expelled her rebels. Though ahotep’s exercise of royal power may have been limited to her son’s minority, it probably set a precedent. For ahmose nefertari, the principal wife and half-sister of amosis, was accorded a role in the ritual of amun-re at thebes and given the title of “god’s wife” with an endowment of land intended to be passed on from mothers to daughters.