127: Meket-Aten and Smenkh-Ka-Re

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 5 June 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Two Funerals and a Wedding, Part 2. In 1350 BCE the royal house of Egypt was in crisis. The princess Meket-Aten, just eight years old, was the second prominent person to die in a short span of time. Soon after, Akhenaten seems to have appointed a new co-ruler. His name was Smenkh-ka-Re. Date c.1350 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, 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. R.C. Connolly, ‘Kinship of Smenkhkare and Tutankhamen Affirmed by Serological Micromethod: Microdetermination of Blood Group Substances in Ancient Human Tissue’. Nature 224, no. 5217 (1 October 1969): 325–325. Norman de Garis Davies, The Rock Tombs of El-Amarna, vol II, 1905. Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunrise: Egypt From Golden Age to Age of Heresy. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2014. Aidan Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation, 2009. Aidan Dodson, ‘Crown Prince Djhutmose and the Royal Sons of the Eighteenth Dynasty’. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 76 (1990): 87–96. Aidan Dodson and Dyan Hilton. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt, 2004. Corrinne Duhig, ‘Comments on “Biological Age of the Skeletonised Mummy from Tomb KV55 at Thebes (Egypt)” by Eugen Strouhal’. Anthropologie 48, no. 2 (2010): 113–16. Marianne Eaton-Krauss, ‘“The Sarcophagus in the Tomb of Tutankhamun”: A Clarification’. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 84 (1998): 210–12. H.W. Fairman, ‘Once Again the So-Called Coffin of Akhenaten’. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 47 (1961): 25–40. Marc Gabolde, D’Akhenaton à Toutânkhamon, 1998. John Harris, ‘En Sag Om Forveksling’. Papyrus 2, no. 4 (2004): 4–13. R.G. Harrison, ‘An Anatomical Examination of the Pharaonic Remains Purported to Be Akhenaten’. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 52 (1966): 95–119. 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. Geoffrey Thorndike Martin, The Royal Tomb at El-ʻAmarna. 2 vols. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 1974. William Max Miller, ‘The Theban Royal Mummy Project’. The Theban Royal Mummy Project, n.d. http://anubis4_2000.tripod.com/mummypages1/18B.htm. William J. Murnane, ‘The End of the Amarna Period Once Again’. Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 96 (2001): 9–22. C.N. Reeves, ‘A Reappraisal of Tomb 55 in the Valley of the Kings’. The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 67 (1981): 48–55. Eugen Strouhal, ‘Biological Age of Skeletonized Mummy from Tomb KV 55 at Thebes’. Anthropologie 48, no. 2 (2010): 97–112. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All you need is a few minutes to start your day off with something historic when you listen to the
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0:28.0	One day more than 3,000 years ago a man was working in the hills above a city.
0:37.0	East of Aachet A'T'in, the horizon of Aitin, a line of cliffs created a wall around the city.
0:44.0	Here, dug into the hillside, artisans prepared the tombs and chapels of high-ranking officials.
0:51.0	Pharaoh's agents, his representatives, were permitted to make their eternal houses in the cliffs
0:57.7	overlooking Aiket Aetin.
1:00.1	These cliffs were limestone, soft but strong and perfect for quarrying into blocks or making tombs.
1:07.5	It was in one of these tombs that a lone artisan was working, carving a scene for the tomb's decoration.
1:15.5	The scene in question was simple.
1:17.8	On the left, the tomb's owner appeared with arms raised high, receiving the adulation of his peers.
1:25.0	On the right, he showed a royal palace, perhaps the building we call the North Palace.
1:30.8	At the top of the scene, the A-10, as always, shone over the tomb owner, the palace, and the figures in the center.
1:39.0	These figures, larger than everyone else, were the focus of the artist's attention.
1:44.4	They were royalty, a king and queen, appearing to give the tomb owner his rewards.
1:49.7	With delicate skill, the artisan carved the pleats of their robes, the shape of their crowns, and the flesh of their bodies.
1:58.0	Above, the rays of A-Tin caressed the royal couple, holding the unk life to their noses. It was a standard scene, barely out of the ordinary.
2:08.0	Soon though, the artist began to work on the cartoos. The hieroglyphic texts accompanying the scene would convey the sense of its meaning.
2:17.0	They would record the names of Aeten High Above and of the royal couple.
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