March 14, 2021

140: Tutankhamun

40 minutes

Tut-Ankh-Amun. Early in his reign, the young pharaoh Tut-ankh-Aten changed his name to Tut-ankh-Amun. Why did he do this? What did it mean? And how much control did this young ruler have over his own identity?

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Audio mixing/editing by Vincent Cavanagh.

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Select Bibliography:

The House of Ranefer

The Amarna Project Website: with separate pages for background and excavations in 1921, 2002, 2003, 2004.

Bronze plaques from the House of Ranefer at Wikimedia.

Kemp, “Tell el-Amarna, 2004,” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 90 (2004), 14–26.

Kemp, The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People (London, 2014).

J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (Atlanta, 1995).

E. Peet and C. L. Woolley, The City of Akhenaten, Volume I (London, 1923).

Schulman, “Military Rank, Title, and Organization in the Egyptian New Kingdom,” Unpublished PhD. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania (1962).

Spalinger, “Review of Robert Hari, Répertoire onomastique amarnien, 1976,” Journal of Near Eastern studies 39 (1980), 230–1.

Tutankhamun

Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation (2nd Edition edn, Cairo, 2017).

Eaton-Krauss, The Unknown Tutankhamun (London, 2016).

Gabolde, D’Akhenaton à Toutânkhamon (Paris, 1998).

Kawai, ‘Studies in the Reign of Tutankhamun’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University (2005).

J. Leprohon, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary (Wilson, 2013).

J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (Atlanta, 1995).

Reeves, The Complete Tutankhamun (Cairo, 1990).

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March 14, 2021

140: Tutankhamun

40 minutes

Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com.

Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast.

Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments.

Music by Keith Zizza https://www.keithzizza.net/.

Music by Ancient Lyric http://www.bettinajoydeguzman.com/.

Music by Jeffrey Goodman http://www.jeffreygoodmanmusic.com/.

Sound Interludes by Luke Chaos https://twitter.com/Luke_Chaos.

Audio mixing/editing by Vincent Cavanagh.

The History of Egypt Podcast endorses RA EGYPTIAN, the clean, natural skincare line with products derived from ancient Egyptian sources. Use the checkout code EGYPT to enjoy 30% off your order!

Select Bibliography:

The House of Ranefer

The Amarna Project Website: with separate pages for background and excavations in 1921, 2002, 2003, 2004.

Bronze plaques from the House of Ranefer at Wikimedia.

Kemp, “Tell el-Amarna, 2004,” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 90 (2004), 14–26.

Kemp, The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People (London, 2014).

J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (Atlanta, 1995).

E. Peet and C. L. Woolley, The City of Akhenaten, Volume I (London, 1923).

Schulman, “Military Rank, Title, and Organization in the Egyptian New Kingdom,” Unpublished PhD. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania (1962).

Spalinger, “Review of Robert Hari, Répertoire onomastique amarnien, 1976,” Journal of Near Eastern studies 39 (1980), 230–1.

Tutankhamun

Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation (2nd Edition edn, Cairo, 2017).