120: Queen Tiye, Reverend Mother

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

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🗓️ 30 January 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Akhenaten (Part 10): Queen Tiye's Retirement. For the first decade of Akhenaten's rule, his mother Tiye was a background figure. But we have more evidence for her later years than you'd expect, including magnificent art and objects. Plus, the Queen herself returned to public life when she made a splendid visit to pharaoh's new city... 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 www.keithzizza.com Select Bibliography: Dorothea Arnold “Artistic Revolution” in Dorothea Arnold (ed.) The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt (1996): 7-17. Free download. John Baines, “The Dawn of the Amarna Age,” in David O’Connor and Eric Cline (eds.), Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign, 1998. Lawrence M. Berman, “Overview of Amenhotep III and His Reign,” in David O’Connor and Eric Cline (eds.), Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign, 1998. Betsy M. Bryan, “Antecedents to Amenhotep III,” in David O’Connor and Eric Cline (eds.), Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign, 1998. Eric H. Cline, “Amenhotep III, the Aegean, and Anatolia,” in David O’Connor and Eric Cline (eds.), Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign, 1998. Benedict G. Davies, Egyptian Historical Records of the Later Eighteenth Dynasty, vols. IV, V, V, 1992, 1994, 1995. Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunrise, 2012. Rita Freed, Yvonne Markowiz, Sue D’auria (eds.), Pharaohs of the Sun: Akhenaten, Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, 1999. Green, “The Royal Women of Amarna: Who Was Who,” in Dorothea Arnold (ed.) The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt (1996): 7-17. Free download. Raymond Johnson, “Monuments and Monumental Art Under Amenhotep III: Evolution and Meaning,” in David O’Connor and Eric Cline (eds.), Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign, 1998. Barry Kemp, City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People, 2012. Arielle P. Kozloff & Betsy M. Bryan (eds.), Egypt’s Dazzling Sun: Amunhotep III and His World, 1992. Arielle P. Kozloff, “The Decorative and Funerary Arts During the Reign of Amenhotep III,” in David O’Connor and Eric Cline (eds.), Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign, 1998. William J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt, 1995. William Flinders Petrie, Illahun, Kahun & Ghurob, 1894. Lana Troy, Patterns of Queenship in Ancient Egyptian Myth and History, 1986. Christiane Ziegler, Queens of Egypt: from Hetepheres to Cleopatra, 2008. James M. Weinstein, “The World Abroad: Egypt and the Levant in the Reign of Amenhotep III,” in David O’Connor and Eric Cline (eds.), Amenhotep III: Perspectives on His Reign, 1998. Websites: Egyptian Museum, Berlin, Room 2.09, The Amarna Period. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New Work, Objects Related to Tiye. British Museum, Stela of Amunhotep III and Tiye. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome back to the History of Egypt podcast.
0:17.5	Episode 120, Reverend Mother. Today, we resume our historical narrative and check
0:25.4	in with the elderly Queen T, mother of Akanaten, wife of the late Amun Hotep III, great queen of Egypt.
0:34.6	Tea remained alive throughout the first decade of Akanaten's reign, so let's uncover
0:40.7	what she has been up to. This episode is brought you by Ghergana, Christopher, and Laurent,
0:46.8	in gratitude for their donations to the show. Your support is generous, folks. May the priests
0:52.3	of Aten offer the finest cuts of meat and the
0:55.8	freshest vegetables in thanks for your kindness. To everyone listening, thank you for joining me. On
1:02.3	with the show. The year was 1351 B.C.E. approximately.
1:20.1	It was regnal year 12 under the majesty of Nefer Keparure, Wa Enra.
1:26.1	Akanaten, Pharaoh of Egypt, remained ensconced in his holy city of
1:30.9	Akhet-Aten, what we now call a mana. When we visited him last time, Arcanaten was enjoying the splendors
1:38.6	of great palaces and mighty temples, enormous institutions that had grown at the center of his new home.
1:46.0	The king will remain there throughout this episode, doing whatever it is that Arcanatan does.
1:52.0	Meanwhile, you and I will take a visit to the king's mother.
1:57.0	Queen T, mother of the pharaoh, has been absent from our story for some time.
2:02.6	In the first few years of Akanatin's reign, when he was still Amun Hotep IV,
2:07.6	Tee had acted as a public guide and counterpart to the young ruler.
2:12.6	Before he took his own wife, Nefertiti, the Queen Mother T. filled the public role of
2:19.2	Great Wife of the King, a title she had wielded for nearly four decades.
2:25.6	As far as we can guess, it was Tee who assisted young Amunhotep IV in his early days on the
2:32.0	throne.
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