159b: Double Death

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 February 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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King Ay suffered badly in the afterlife. His funeral, in 1331 BCE, was poor; and a few decades/centuries later, vandals broke into his tomb. They ransacked the monument, attacked the King's images, and erased his names. The attack was brutal but methodical. Why did this happen? Episode Details Date c.1331 BCE and a few decades / centuries later. Logo image: Erasures on the wrists of Nut, Lady of the Sky, as she offers nyny (welcome) to King Ay. Photo by Dominic Perry, 2022. Photos: See photos of the tomb of Ay (KV23) by Dominic Perry, available on Google Drive. Music: “The Mummy’s Tomb,” by Tabletop Audio. Used with permission. Music: Sistrum sound effect by Hathor Systrum www.hathorsystrum.com. Used with permission. Music: Interludes by Luke Chaos https://twitter.com/Luke_Chaos. Select References A. Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation (2nd edn, 2017). M. Gabolde, Toutankhamon (2015). W. J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (1995). O. Schaden, ‘The God’s Father Ay’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, University of Minnesota (1977). O. J. Schaden, ‘Clearance of the Tomb of King Ay (WV-23)’, Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 21 (1984), 39–64. JSTOR online. R. H. Wilkinson, ‘Controlled Damage: The Mechanics and Micro-History of the Damnatio Memoriae Carried Out in KV-23, the Tomb of Ay’, Journal of Egyptian History 4 (2011), 129–47. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.8	The year was 1331 BCE, approximately.
0:45.0	Kepper Kepperu Ra, the god's father, I, was gone.
0:49.6	His body, embalmed and wrapped, now required burial.
0:54.4	The King's successor, the new ruler, was obliged to provide that burial.
0:59.4	And yet, there are questions about the enthusiasm, with which this burial went ahead.
1:06.1	Tradition demanded a funeral, but how lavish did that funeral really need to be?
1:13.4	The tomb of King I was in a terrible state when archaeologists explored it.
1:18.1	In 1816, the tomb was strewn with rubble, shattered objects, human remains and dust.
1:27.6	Over the centuries, the tomb had filled with detritus.
1:31.3	People had reused it for later burials.
1:34.3	And over time, the tomb of I became a sad, sorry affair.
1:40.3	Sifting through the remains, excavators found bits and pieces of a burial, shattered
1:45.5	pieces of wood from statues, perhaps statues like the ones found in Tutankhamun's tomb.
1:52.6	There were also rosettes, small ornaments of gold.
1:56.6	These originally covered a shroud or pal that may have lain over the sarcophagus.
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