=Ȧmen-ḥetep I=, the son of Amāsis I, continued the war in Nubia, and the rebuilding of the temple of Ȧmen and other sanctuaries; he was the founder of the great brotherhood of the =Priests of Ȧmen=. From a building made by him at Dêr al-Baḥarî came the magnificent painted limestone =statue of the king=, in the mummied form and with the White Crown of Osiris, exhibited in the Northern Egyptian Gallery (No. =346=), and the stele on which are sculptured figures of =Neb-Ḥapt-Rā Menthu-ḥetep= and =Ȧmen-ḥetep I= (Bay 9, No. =347=). Other interesting monuments of this reign are: the stele of =Pa-sheṭ=, a judge, who is seen adoring the king and queen (Bay 7, No. =348=); and a stele with figures of the king and queen (Bay 9, No. =349=). The inscriptions and scenes on several stelae show that Ȧmen-ḥetep I and his queens were included among the gods; see the stelae of =Ḥui= (Bay 8, No. =352=), =Pa-ren-nefer= (Bay 8, No. =353=), =Ȧmen-em-Ȧpt= (Bay 10, No. =354=), =Ȧmen-men= (Bay 10, No. =355=), and =Ḥui=, son of Nefert-ithȧ (Bay 11, No. =357=). [Sidenote: B.C. 1550.] =Teḥuti-mes I=, or =Thothmes I=, the son of Ȧmen-ḥetep I, made Napata, at the foot of the Fourth Cataract, the border of his kingdom to the south; and he waged war in Northern Syria. He added to the temple of Ȧmen, and set up obelisks at Karnak. Among objects bearing his name are two =bricks= and a =steatite vase= inscribed with his prenomen and name (Wall-cases 150 and 175 in the Fourth Egyptian Room). =Thothmes II=, the son of Thothmes I and Mut-Nefert, married his half-sister Ḥātshepset; during his short reign, war was carried on in Syria and Nubia, and many temples in Egypt and forts in Nubia were repaired or rebuilt. Among the monuments of this reign may be mentioned the =scarabs= in Table-case D (Fourth Egyptian Room) and a portion of a slab inscribed with his Horus name (Third Egyptian Room, Wall-case 103, No. 937). After the death of Thothmes II, his widow =Ḥātshepset= reigned alone for some years, and she built the famous =temple of Dêr al-Baḥarî=, the walls of which she decorated with reliefs illustrating her =Expedition to Punt=. The temple was called “Tcheser-Tcheseru,” _i.e._, “Holy of Holies,” and the architect was Senmut; it was built close to the temple of Menthu-ḥetep Neb-ḥap-Rā, and was ranged in three terraces. It was enclosed by a wall, and was approached by an avenue of sphinxes, which led to the pylon at the entrance, where stood two obelisks. She also set up two great granite obelisks in honour of her father Thothmes I. About twenty years before her death she associated her nephew Thothmes III with her in the rule of the kingdom. Many =scarabs=, a gold =ring=, a wooden =cartouche=, and an alabaster =vase=, inscribed with her names and titles, are exhibited in the Fourth Egyptian Room (Table-cases P and J and Wall-case 139).