167: Horemheb, Reviving Deir el-Medina

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

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🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Back in the village. In regnal year 7, Horemheb's officials turn up in western Thebes (Waset). They began reorganising the village of the tomb-builders, Set-Ma'at "The Place of Truth." Doing so, the King's government created a lasting legacy in the town we call Deir el-Medina. Episode details: Date: c.1325 BCE. Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Intro music: Keith Zizza. Outro music: Ancient Lyric. Music interludes: Luke Chaos. Select Bibliography: M. B. Bruyère, ‘Fouilles de Deir el Medineh (1923—1924)’, Fouilles de L’Institut Francais d’Archéologie Orientale du Caire (1925). J. Černý, A Community of Workmen at Thebes in the Ramesside period (Cairo, 1973). B. G. Davies, Who’s Who at Deir el-Medina: A Prosopographic Study of the Royal Workmen’s Community (Leiden, 1999). B. G. Davies, Life Within the Five Walls: A Handbook to Deir el-Medina (Wallasey, 2018). Y. M. El Shazly, ‘Royal Ancestor Worship in Deir el-Medina During the New Kingdom’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University (2008). B. J. J. Haring, ‘Workmen’s Marks and the Early History of the Theban Royal Necropolis’, in J. Toivari-Viitala et al. (eds), Deir el-Medina Studies: Helsinki, June 24 – 26, 2009, Proceedings (Helsinki, 2014), 87—100. J. R. Harris, ‘How Long was the Reign of Horemheb?’, Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 54 (1968), 95—99. M. Müller, ‘Deir el-Medina in the Dark – The Amarna Period in the History of the Village’, in J. Toivari-Viitala et al. (eds), Deir el-Medina Studies: Helsinki, June 24 – 26, 2009, Proceedings (Helsinki, 2014), 154—167. M. S. i Sanjaume, ‘La Tomba de Sennedjem a Deir el-Medina TT1’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, University de Barcelona (2013). E. Uphill, ‘Some Matters Relating to the Growth and Walls of Deir el-Medina’, in Jac. J. Janssen et al. (eds), Deir el-Medina in the Third Millenium AD: A Tribute to Jac. J. Janssen, Egyptologische uitgaven XIV (Leiden, 2000), 325–9. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Salam alaikum and welcome to the History of Egypt podcast.
0:11.4	Episode 167, reviving Diyah L. Medina.
0:16.1	Today, official business is underway in the hills west of Luxor,
0:21.0	the village of the tomb builders, generally known as Dear El Medina, is about to return to the limelight.
0:27.7	In the reign of Hormheb, the village got a new start on life, and a golden age was about to begin.
0:35.2	This episode comes to you on behalf of Bethany, Grace and Misty,
0:39.3	who joined the Patreon as hereditary nobles. Their support is most generous and will fund great
0:45.7	developments in the village. Misty, Bethany, Grace, thank you kindly. May your households endure
0:52.9	for a thousand years, and your descendants honor your memory.
0:57.5	To everyone listening, thank you for joining me. Come, let us travel to the west bank of the Nile, and revisit an old horn. The year was 1325 BCE, approximately.
1:23.1	Regnal year 7 in the reign of Hor M. Heb.
1:27.0	It was a nondescript year in terms of great monuments
1:30.0	or political affairs. There were no military campaigns, no major celebrations that we hear about,
1:37.0	no enormous monuments to commemorate and commission. And yet, Regnal Year 7 is one of the most significant in this king's reign.
1:47.5	It is in this year that Deer El Medina returns to the record.
1:52.5	It's been a while since we visited Dear El Medina, aka the Set Ma'at, or Place of Truth.
2:00.0	In the early 18th dynasty, the village emerged under the
2:03.6	rulers Amunhotep I and Tutmos I, who defined this community as we know it. The village of Dereal
2:12.0	Medina, or the Place of Truth, was a thriving home for the royal tomb builders. Artisans, like painters, sculptors,
2:20.6	masons, and builders, came to this village to live. Their families came with them, and the area
2:27.4	became a bustling centre for tomb-building activity. At least, we think that's what happened. The early history of this village
2:36.4	is quite vague. We know about a few individuals, like the architect Carr, whose magnificent
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