Editing Horemheb (section)

==Succession==
{{see also|Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt family tree}}
[[File:La tombe de Horemheb (KV.57) (Vallée des Rois Thèbes ouest) -4.jpg|thumb|[[KV57|KV&nbsp;57]]: the Tomb of Horemheb]]

Under Horemheb, Egypt's power and confidence were once again restored after the internal chaos of the [[Amarna Period]]; this situation set the stage for the rise of the 19th&nbsp;Dynasty under such ambitious Pharaohs as [[Seti I]] and [[Ramesses II]]. [[Geoffrey Thorndike Martin]] in his excavation work at Saqqara states that the burial of Horemheb's second wife [[Mutnedjmet]], as well as that of an unborn or newborn baby, was located at the bottom of a shaft to the rooms of Horemheb's Saqqara tomb. He notes that "a fragment of an [[alabaster]] vase inscribed with a funerary text for the chantress of Amun and King's Wife, Mutnodjmet, as well as pieces of a statuette of her [was found here] ... The funerary vase in particular, since it bears her name and titles would hardly have been used for the burial of some other person."<ref name="Martin">{{cite book |first=G. |last=Martin |title=The Hidden Tombs of Memphis |publisher=Thames & Hudson |year=1991 |pages=97–98}}</ref><blockquote>Eugene Strouhal studied a skull and other bones and concluded that they belonged to the queen. According to his analysis, the queen lost her teeth at an early age. She died at around age forty, possibly in childbirth, as the remains of a fetus were found with her body.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=b4N9DAAAQBAJ&q=queen+mutnodjmet+buried+with+fetus&pg=PA143 |via=Google Books |title=Scanning the Pharaohs: CT Imaging of the New Kingdom Royal Mummies |last1=Hawass |first1=Zahi A. |author1-link=Zahi Hawass |last2=Saleem |first2=Sahar |year=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-977-416-673-0 |language=en |access-date=2020-11-12 |archive-date=2022-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221003055706/https://books.google.com/books?id=b4N9DAAAQBAJ&q=queen+mutnodjmet+buried+with+fetus&pg=PA143 |url-status=live }}</ref></blockquote>Since Horemheb had no surviving son, he appointed his [[Vizier (Ancient Egypt)|Vizier]], Paramessu, to succeed him upon his death, both to reward Paramessu's loyalty and because the latter had both a son and grandson to secure Egypt's royal succession. Paramessu employed the name [[Ramesses I]] upon assuming power and founded the [[Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt|19th Dynasty]] of the New Kingdom. Horemheb's second successor, [[Seti I]], was married to a possible daughter of Horemheb's, [[Tanedjemet|Tanodjmy]].<ref>Mladjov 2014.</ref> While the decoration of Horemheb's KV&nbsp;57 tomb was still unfinished upon his death, this situation is not unprecedented: [[Amenhotep II]]'s tomb was also not fully completed when he was buried, even though this ruler enjoyed a reign of 26&nbsp;years.

Although many of his monuments were later usurrped by [[Seti I]], Seti left the name of Horemheb on the veil of the Amun bark on a pedestal in Luxor temple untouched. This is similar to how Horemheb left the name of Tutankhamun on the veil of Amun bark at Karnak temple untouched.<ref name="x641">{{cite web | title=Reliefs and Inscriptions at Luxor Temple, Volume 1: The Festival Procession of Opet in the Colonnade Hall | website=Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures | url=https://isac.uchicago.edu/research/publications/oip/reliefs-and-inscriptions-luxor-temple-volume-1-festival-procession-opet | access-date=2025-01-01 | page = xx}}</ref>