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Hatshepsut
Birth/Death (1507–1458 BC)
The first recorded female ruler of ancient Egypt to reign as a male with the full authority of Pharaoh is Queen Hatshepsut
Our third episode is about an ancient Egyptian bad-ass, Queen Hatshepsut or as we call her Queen H. She is attributed to being one Egypt’s greatest and longest rulers. Somewhere in time, she was lost in the history books, some by her on doing and others by people trying to erase her existence as pharaoh.
There is a lot of information about Hatshepsut out there, below is the bibliography for all citations used for this podcast. There continues to be a lot of questions and a lot of excitement around Hatshepsut and even a rumored movie.
Early rise to power
Reign of Queen Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut began her reign by marrying her daughter to Thutmose III and bestowing on Neferu-Ra the position of God’s Wife of Amun in order to secure her position.
She presented herself as a direct successor to Ahmose, whose name the people still remembered as their great liberator, in order to further strengthen her position and defend against detractors who would claim a woman was unfit to rule. Her numerous inscriptions, monuments, and temples all demonstrate how unprecedented her reign was: no woman before her had ruled the country openly as pharaoh.
She kept the economy moving;
Death
Senenmut and Neferu-Ra had both died long before and there was no one at court, it seems, who had the power or inclination to change this policy. The wreckage of some of these works was dumped near her temple at Deir el-Bahri and excavations brought her name to light along with the inscriptions inside the temple which Champollion was so mystified by. Although there have been many theories over the years as to why Tuthmose III tried to blot Hatshepsut’s name from history, the most likely reason was that her reign had been unconventional and departed from tradition.
The Egyptian belief that one lives on as long as one’s name is remembered, however, is exemplified in Hatshepsut. She was forgotten as the period of the New Kingdom continued and remained so for centuries. Once her name was found again by Champollion in the 19th century CE, and then by others throughout the 20th, she gradually came back to life and assumed her rightful place as one of the greatest pharaohs in Egypt’s history.
It is unknown how or when she died, although there is speculation based on when pronouns started changing in Egyptian artifacts. As we continue to discover it will be exciting to see what else comes out from the stories of Queen H.
Quotes
“has become one of the most celebrated and controversial women of Egypt and the ancient world in general……
Whereas she had been represented as a woman in earlier statues and relief sculptures, after her coronation as king she appeared with male dress and gradually became represented with male physique. Her breasts did not show and she stood in a traditional man’s posture rather than a woman’s. Some reliefs were even re-carved to adjust her representation to appear more like a man.”
Page 172. M. V. Mieroop, A history of ancient Egypt. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
“He [Amun] in the incarnation of the Majesty of her husband, the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, [Thutmose I] found her sleeping in the beauty of her palace. She awoke at the divine fragrance and turned towards his Majesty. He went to her immediately, he was aroused by her he imposed his desire upon her. He allowed her to see him in his form of a god and she rejoiced at the sight of his beauty after he had come before her. His love passed into her body. The palace was flooded with divine fragrance (van de Mieroop”
Page 173. M. V. Mieroop, A history of ancient Egypt. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Podcast Sources:
Ferguson, J. M., B. M. Wermuth, and C. B. Taylor. “Rapid Desensitization of a Needle Phobia by Participant Modeling.” The Western Journal of Medicine 124, no. 2 (February 1976): 174–76.
Gagov, S. “Reactions of the Arterial Blood Pressure in Changed Haemodynamic Conditions and under the Effect of Bilateral Carotid Occlusion.” Acta Physiologica Et Pharmacologica Bulgarica 3–4 (1975): 13–21.
Gedge, Pauline. Child of the Morning. Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1977.
Halter, Marek, and Marek Halter. Zipporah, Wife of Moses: A Novel. 1st American ed. The Canaan Trilogy, bk. 2. New York: Crown Publishers, 2005.
Ignatovich, V. F. “Enhancement of the Antigenic Activity and Virulence of the Vaccine Strain E of Rickettsia Prow Azeki by Passages in Cell Culture.” Acta Virologica 19, no. 6 (November 1975): 481–85.
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis. Mara, Daughter of the Nile. New York, N.Y: Puffin Books, 1985.
Mikuz, G., K. Loewit, and M. Herbst. “[Adrenal-like Leydig cells (author’s transl)].” Virchows Archiv. B, Cell Pathology 19, no. 4 (December 19, 1975): 359–68.
O’Neill, Patricia L. The Eye of Re. Chatswood, N.S.W.: New Holland Publishers, 2011.
———. The Horus ThroneSydney, NSW.: Gibbes Street, 2010.
Poole-Wilson, P. A., and G. A. Langer. “Effect of PH on Ionic Exchange and Function in Rat and Rabbit Myocardium.” The American Journal of Physiology 229, no. 3 (September 1975): 570–81. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplegacy.1975.229.3.570.
Roehrig, C. H., Dreyfus, R., Keller, C. A., M.H. de Young Memorial Museum., Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), & Kimbell Art Museum. (2005). Hatshepsut, from queen to Pharaoh. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Smith, B. (1996). Egypt of the pharaohs. San Diego: Lucent Books.M. V. Mieroop, A history of ancient Egypt. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
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Hatshepsut
Birth/Death (1507–1458 BC)
The first recorded female ruler of ancient Egypt to reign as a male with the full authority of Pharaoh is Queen Hatshepsut
Our third episode is about an ancient Egyptian bad-ass, Queen Hatshepsut or as we call her Queen H. She is attributed to being one Egypt’s greatest and longest rulers. Somewhere in time, she was lost in the history books, some by her on doing and others by people trying to erase her existence as pharaoh.
There is a lot of information about Hatshepsut out there, below is the bibliography for all citations used for this podcast. There continues to be a lot of questions and a lot of excitement around Hatshepsut and even a rumored movie.
Early rise to power
Reign of Queen Hatshepsut
Hatshepsut began her reign by marrying her daughter to Thutmose III and bestowing on Neferu-Ra the position of God’s Wife of Amun in order to secure her position.
She presented herself as a direct successor to Ahmose, whose name the people still remembered as their great liberator, in order to further strengthen her position and defend against detractors who would claim a woman was unfit to rule. Her numerous inscriptions, monuments, and temples all demonstrate how unprecedented her reign was: no woman before her had ruled the country openly as pharaoh.
She kept the economy moving;
Death
Senenmut and Neferu-Ra had both died long before and there was no one at court, it seems, who had the power or inclination to change this policy. The wreckage of some of these works was dumped near her temple at Deir el-Bahri and excavations brought her name to light along with the inscriptions inside the temple which Champollion was so mystified by. Although there have been many theories over the years as to why Tuthmose III tried to blot Hatshepsut’s name from history, the most likely reason was that her reign had been unconventional and departed from tradition.
The Egyptian belief that one lives on as long as one’s name is remembered, however, is exemplified in Hatshepsut. She was forgotten as the period of the New Kingdom continued and remained so for centuries. Once her name was found again by Champollion in the 19th century CE, and then by others throughout the 20th, she gradually came back to life and assumed her rightful place as one of the greatest pharaohs in Egypt’s history.
It is unknown how or when she died, although there is speculation based on when pronouns started changing in Egyptian artifacts. As we continue to discover it will be exciting to see what else comes out from the stories of Queen H.
Quotes
“has become one of the most celebrated and controversial women of Egypt and the ancient world in general……
Whereas she had been represented as a woman in earlier statues and relief sculptures, after her coronation as king she appeared with male dress and gradually became represented with male physique. Her breasts did not show and she stood in a traditional man’s posture rather than a woman’s. Some reliefs were even re-carved to adjust her representation to appear more like a man.”
Page 172. M. V. Mieroop, A history of ancient Egypt. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
“He [Amun] in the incarnation of the Majesty of her husband, the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, [Thutmose I] found her sleeping in the beauty of her palace. She awoke at the divine fragrance and turned towards his Majesty. He went to her immediately, he was aroused by her he imposed his desire upon her. He allowed her to see him in his form of a god and she rejoiced at the sight of his beauty after he had come before her. His love passed into her body. The palace was flooded with divine fragrance (van de Mieroop”
Page 173. M. V. Mieroop, A history of ancient Egypt. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Podcast Sources:
Ferguson, J. M., B. M. Wermuth, and C. B. Taylor. “Rapid Desensitization of a Needle Phobia by Participant Modeling.” The Western Journal of Medicine 124, no. 2 (February 1976): 174–76.
Gagov, S. “Reactions of the Arterial Blood Pressure in Changed Haemodynamic Conditions and under the Effect of Bilateral Carotid Occlusion.” Acta Physiologica Et Pharmacologica Bulgarica 3–4 (1975): 13–21.
Gedge, Pauline. Child of the Morning. Toronto: Macmillan Company of Canada, 1977.
Halter, Marek, and Marek Halter. Zipporah, Wife of Moses: A Novel. 1st American ed. The Canaan Trilogy, bk. 2. New York: Crown Publishers, 2005.
Ignatovich, V. F. “Enhancement of the Antigenic Activity and Virulence of the Vaccine Strain E of Rickettsia Prow Azeki by Passages in Cell Culture.” Acta Virologica 19, no. 6 (November 1975): 481–85.
McGraw, Eloise Jarvis. Mara, Daughter of the Nile. New York, N.Y: Puffin Books, 1985.
Mikuz, G., K. Loewit, and M. Herbst. “[Adrenal-like Leydig cells (author’s transl)].” Virchows Archiv. B, Cell Pathology 19, no. 4 (December 19, 1975): 359–68.
O’Neill, Patricia L. The Eye of Re. Chatswood, N.S.W.: New Holland Publishers, 2011.
———. The Horus ThroneSydney, NSW.: Gibbes Street, 2010.
Poole-Wilson, P. A., and G. A. Langer. “Effect of PH on Ionic Exchange and Function in Rat and Rabbit Myocardium.” The American Journal of Physiology 229, no. 3 (September 1975): 570–81. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplegacy.1975.229.3.570.
Roehrig, C. H., Dreyfus, R., Keller, C. A., M.H. de Young Memorial Museum., Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), & Kimbell Art Museum. (2005). Hatshepsut, from queen to Pharaoh. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Smith, B. (1996). Egypt of the pharaohs. San Diego: Lucent Books.M. V. Mieroop, A history of ancient Egypt. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Want more? Check out other episodes!