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By Joyce A. Tyldesley

Egypt?s Queen?or, as she would like to be remembered, King?Hatchepsut governed over an age of peace, prosperity, and noteworthy architectural fulfillment (c. 1490 b.c.). Had she been born a guy, her reign might very likely were remembered for its sturdy govt, winning alternate missions, and the development of 1 of the main appealing buildings within the world?the Deir el-Bahri temple at Luxor. After her demise, although, her identify and picture have been viciously attacked, her monuments destroyed or usurped, her position in historical past systematically obliterated. ultimately, during this mind-blowing paintings of archaeological and historic sleuthing, Joyce Tyldesley rescues this fascinating determine from greater than thousand years of oblivion and eventually restores the feminine pharaoh to her rightful prominence because the first lady in recorded background to rule a state.

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The Theban Tomb of Nebwenenef The importance of the office of high priest in the early Ramessid period is apparent both in Nebwenenef ’s ownership of a mortuary temple southwest of the temple of Sety I on the Theban West Bank at Qurna (now largely destroyed) and the location of his tomb in the high-status sector of Dra Abu el-Naga in the northern part of the Theban necropolis. His later successors Bakenkhons (no. 2) and Roma (no. 3) were buried in the same area. The text recording Nebwenenef ’s appointment to his position in year 1 of Ramesses II is carved on the south wall of his tomb’s transverse hall.

Lichtheim 1976, 86–89; discussion: Gnirs 1996, 215–17). This practice continued in the Ramessid period. Biography generally gains prominence in the Eighteenth Dynasty both through its expansion into temple domains and through the increased space accorded it in tombs, particularly on stelae in Theban tombs (see Hermann 1940). In the earlier Eighteenth Dynasty, career biographies developed in new directions, a phenomenon that Gnirs (1996, 230) relates to increased competition among elites. Accounts of travel and military exploits, which can be compared with royal narratives and annals, include complex presentations of dramatic setting and action: “And then the great elephant which was among them became belligerent near His Person.

However, expansions in boundaries of decorum that made possible the transformation of tomb function in the Ramessid period also meant that, when biography was selected as a focus for the tomb, its character could shift to make play with these religious concerns. 2). 4. 1. Selection of Material The selection of monuments presented in this book is not comprehensive, but intended to illustrate the diversity and complexity of biography and elite self-presentation in the Ramessid period. Most texts are longer narrative inscriptions, but I include some shorter statements or epithet-based formulations in order to highlight the range of what was created.

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