NEHC 20013 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hatshepsut, Amenhotep Iii, Merneptah
6 Sep 2016
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Fell out of favor or died: why tutankhamun not depicted in scenes when king had no son, important outcomes of amarna period. Focus a lot more on afterlife: foreign policy. Surrounded by time period of relatively inactive militaristic pharaohs. Horemheb was an egyptian general, comes in after ay (vizier who ruled for a couple years: one of last rulers of 18th dynasty, tried to establish some order on vassals in levant. 18th dynasty: hittites were pretty hostile to egypt entire time, queen was being pressured to marry off someone not with royal blood to. Ie. servant or horemheb: very much based in (eastern ?) Nile delta: seti captured kadesh, controlled a lot, subdued unruly people. Had to be moved: kv 5 (tomb of royal sons) All of his many, many sons: tomb of queen nefertari. Put his name over a lot of things: medinet habu temple. Hittite plague: during reign of shupliuma (?, result of prisoners of war.
