Aamu

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File:Painting of foreign delegation in the tomb of Khnumhotep II circa 1900 BCE (Detail mentioning "Abisha the Hyksos" in hieroglyphs).jpg

The leader of the Aamu in the painting is a man described as "Abisha the Hyksos"
(𓋾𓈎𓈉 ḥḳꜣ-ḫꜣswt, Heqa-khasut for "Hyksos").
Tomb of Khnumhotep II, circa 1900 BCE.<ref name="MVDM131"/>

Aamu (Template:Langx) was a name used to designate West Asians in ancient Egypt.<ref name="MVDM131"/> It is often translated as "Western Asiatic", but it might refer specifically to Canaanites or Amorites.<ref name="MVDM131"/><ref name="KB188"/> The Egyptologist and linguist Thomas Schneider states that ꜥꜣm was attested as early as the Sixth Dynasty of Egypt and is likely a loanword from early Semitic term drmj, "inhabitant of the south (of Palestine)".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Contemporary Egyptian sources from the time of the wars against the Hyksos also refer to the latter as {{#invoke:Lang|lang}}. Although they have left no inscriptions in their own language, some of their personal names have turned up in Egyptian records, which are a syntactical and lexical match for West Semitic dialects.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> An ancient Egyptian painting in the tomb of 12th Dynasty official Khnumhotep II, at Beni Hasan (Template:Circa), shows a group of West Asiatic foreigners, possibly Canaanites, labelled as Aamu ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}), including the leading man with a Nubian ibex labelled "Abisha the Hyksos" ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}} ḥḳꜣ-ḫꜣsw, Heqa-khasut for "Hyksos").<ref name="MVDM131" /><ref name="KB188" /><ref name="archaeology.org">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="pdfs.semanticscholar.org">Template:Cite journal</ref> The Aamu from this relief are further labeled as being from the area of Shu, which may be identified, with some uncertainty, with the area of Moab in southern Palestine around the Jordan River, or generally the southern Levant, just east of the Jordan and the Red Sea.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

File:Sotheby's Auction Art Hyksos Egyptian art.jpg

An Egyptian glazed steatite profile head of an Asiatic 1540-1190 BCE<ref>Template:Citation "It is possible that this object formed part of the handle of an implement; " This piece was later in headlines for controversy. https://archive.today/20231226213938/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/03/archaeologist-urges-sothebys-cancel-auction-illicit-artefacts/ </ref>

• Word Aamu in two Egyptian scripts circa 1900 BCE.jpg

  Word "Aamu" (from right to left) in two Egyptian scripts, in the

• Aamu hieroglyphs.jpg

  A more recent description of the word (left to right, 1898)

• Asiatic people in Book of Gates (rendering).png

  Aamu people ('𓂝𓄿𓅓𓅱' characters spread alongside each individual) in the Book of Gates (rendering)

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