126: The Death of Queen Tiye

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 3 June 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Two Funerals and a Wedding, Part 1. Around year 12 of Akhenaten, the Queen Mother Tiye died. She journeyed to the West at the age of 60, having been a powerful influence for more than fifty years. Tiye is a monumental figure, literally, in the history of ancient Egypt. In this episode, we do her honour, and explore her legacy following her death. Date c.1351 BCE 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 Music by Ancient Lyric www.bettinajoydeguzman.com Select Bibliography: Dorothea Arnold (ed.), The Royal Women of Amarna: Images of Beauty from Ancient Egypt, 1996. Martha R. Bell, “An Armchair Excavation of KV55,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 27 (1990): 97–137. Benedict G. Davies, Egyptian Historical Records of the Later Eighteenth Dynasty. Vol. IV, 1992. Norman de Garis Davies, The Rock Tombs of El-Amarna, 1903. Theodore M. Davis, The Tomb of Queen Tiyi: The Discovery of the Tomb, 1910. Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunrise: Egypt From Golden Age to Age of Heresy, 2014. Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation, 2009. Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2004. Marc Gabolde, D’Akhenaton à Toutânkhamon, 1998. Marc Gabolde, “L’ADN de La Famille Royale Amarnienne et Les Sources Égyptiennes,” Égypte Nilotique et Méditerranéenne 6 (2013): 177–203. Michael E. Habicht, A.S. Bouwman, and F.J. Rühli. “Identifications of Ancient Egyptian Royal Mummies from the 18th Dynasty Reconsidered’,” American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159 (2016): 216–31. James E. Harris, Edward F. Wente, Charles F. Cox, Ibrahim El Nawaway, Charles J. Kowalski, Arthur T. Storey, William R. Russell, Paul V. Ponitz, and Geoffrey F. Walker. “Mummy of the “Elder Lady” in the Tomb of Amenhotep II: Egyptian Museum Catalog Number 61070,” Science 200, no. 4346 (1978): 1149–51. Zahi Hawass, Yehia Z. Gad, Somaia Ismail, Rabab Khairat, Dina Fathalla, Naglaa Hasan, Amal Ahmed, et al. “Ancestry and Pathology in King Tutankhamun’s Family,” JAMA 303, no. 7 (17 February 2010): 638–47. Barry J. Kemp, The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People, 2014. Geoffrey Thorndike Martin, The Royal Tomb at El-ʻAmarna, 2 vols, 1974. William Max Miller, “The Theban Royal Mummy Project,” The Theban Royal Mummy Project, http://anubis4_2000.tripod.com/mummypages1/18B.htm. William J. Murnane, Texts From the Amarna Period in Egypt, 1995. William J. Murnane, “The End of the Amarna Period Once Again,” Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 96 (2001): 9–22. Paul T. Nicholson, and Caroline Jackson, “Glass of Amenhotep II From Tomb KV55 in the Valley of the Kings,” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 99 (2013): 85–99. C.N. Reeves, “A Reappraisal of Tomb 55 in the Valley of the Kings,” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 67 (1981): 48–55. Joyce Tyldesley, Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt, 2006. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In 1351 B.C.E. a long procession wound its way through the hills east of Aachet Aitin.
0:19.9	Amid shear cliffs and tumbled rocks, the parade made a stately progress away from the city.
0:26.8	At the heart of the group, a wooden sled, built like a shrine and ornamented in gold, carried a glittering coffin. a
0:33.2	shrine and ornamented in gold carried a glittering coffin.
0:34.4	Within that coffin a mummified body lay in state, one arm crossed over its shoulder,
0:40.8	signifying its royalty.
0:43.7	The procession was a funeral, the last journey of a ruler making their way to the afterlife.
0:49.9	All around mourners through dust over their heads wailing at the calamity.
0:54.8	Priests rattled the cystra.
0:57.1	Singers chanted the dirges, and as the procession trudged along,
1:01.4	they moved from the world of the living towards the world of the dead. The year wasth, 1st.51 b.C. Regnell, year 12, under the majesty of Nefer Keperu Ra, Waa and Rha, the king of upper and lower Egypt, the son of Ra, Aachenaten.
1:37.0	Pharaoh was now 30 years old, give or take, and he had accomplished a great deal in his first decade of rule.
1:44.0	Looking back, it is easy to see this period as a wave of changes
1:49.5	with Arkenaten reshaping his world.
1:52.0	The king's religious beliefs appear front and center,
1:56.0	and they seem to define everything around him. His promotion of Arten was a big deal, so was the new style of public art and the creation of a new city,
2:06.5	a manna, where the king could rule in peace.
2:10.4	In hindsight, Arkenatin's first decade appears to be a whirlwind of radical personal decrees.
2:18.0	Behind the scenes though, things were undoubtedly more complex. Looking back, it is easy to view the art, the
2:25.6	monuments and the grand proclamations as a record of immense dictatorial power.
2:31.6	But these public images only reveal what Aikenaten wanted us to see.
2:37.0	They do not necessarily show his true personality or the day-to-day influences that shaped his views and decisions.
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