173: Horemheb - The Forgotten War

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

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🗓️ 2 November 2022

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To Vile Carchemish. In Year 16, King Horemheb may have led a "campaign of victory" to the far north. An artefact identified in the 1970s, but lost for decades, testifies to these events... but what do they mean? Episode details: Date: c.1316 BCE. Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Music intro: Keith Zizza. Music interludes and outro: Luke Chaos. Select Bibliography: A. Ahrens, ‘New Light on the Amarna Period from the Northern Levant: A Clay Sealing with the Throne Name of Akhenaten/Amenhotep IV from the Royal Palace at Tall Mišrife/Qatna, in: Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 5 (2012): 232-248’, Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie 5 (2012), 232—248. A. Ahrens, ‘Pharao Haremhab und die nördliche Levante. Bemerkungen zu einem Skarabäenabdruck aus Tell Mišrife/Qatna, in: Ugarit-Forschungen 45, In memoriam Oswald Loretz (2014): 1-9’, Ugarit-Forschungen 45 (2014), 1—9. E. Devecchi and J. L. Miller, ‘Hittite-Egyptian Synchronisms and their Consequences for Ancient Near Eastern Chronology’, in J. Mynářová (ed.), Egypt and the Near East – The Crossroads (Prague, 2011), 139—176. H. Gauthier, Dictionnaire des noms géographiques contenus dans les textes hiéroglyphiques (Paris, 1925). R. Gautschy, ‘A Reassessment of the Absolute Chronology of the Egyptian New Kingdom and its “Brotherly” Countries’, Egypt and the Levant 24 (2014), 141—158. N. Grimal, ‘L’offrande d’un vétéran de l’an 16 d’Ḥoremḥeb’, Comptes rendus de l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres (Paris) (2018), 319—338. B. Lagarce-Othman, ‘Un nouveau vase inédit d’Horemheb’, in V. Matoïan and M. al-Maqdissi (eds), Études Ougaritiques III, Ras Shamra–Ougarit XXI (Leuven, 2013), 347—364. V. Matoïan, ‘Ugarit et l’Égypte: essai d’interprétation de la documentation archéologique et perspectives de la recherche’, in B. Eder and R. Pruzsinszky (eds), Policies of Exchange Political Systems and Modes of Interaction in the Aegean and the Near East in the 2nd Millenium B.C.E, Proceedings of the International Symposium at the University of Freiburg Institute for Archaeological Studies, 30th May – 2nd June 2012, 2 (Vienna, 2015), 35—84. J. L. Miller, ‘Amarna Age Chronology and the Identity of Nibḫururiya In the Light of a Newly Reconstructed Hittite Text’, Altorientalische Forschungen 34 (2007), 252—293. D. B. Redford, ‘New Light on the Asiatic Campaigning of Ḥoremheb’, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 211 (1973), 36—49. D. B. Redford, ‘A Head-Smiting Scene from the 10th Pylon’, in M. Görg (ed.), Fontes Atque Pontes. Eine Festgrabe für Hellmut Brunner (Wiesbaden, 1983), 362—373. Z. Simon, ‘Kann Armā mit Haremhab gleichgesetzt werden?’, Altorientalische Forschungen 36 (2009), 340—348. G. Wilhelm, ‘Muršilis II. Konflikt mit Ägypten und Haremhabs Thronbesteigung’, Die Welt des Orients 39 (2009), 108—116. J. A. Wilson, ‘Egyptian Historical Texts’, in J. B. Pritchard (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament with Supplement (1978), 227–64. W. Wreszinski, Atlas zur altaegyptischen Kulturgeschichte (Geneva, 1988). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	400 years ago, a trio of tiny kingdoms were perched on some damp islands off the coast of Europe.
0:06.0	Within three short centuries, these islands would become the centre of an empire which ruled a quarter
0:10.8	of the globe and on which the sun never set. I'm Samuel Hume, a historian of the British Empire,
0:16.0	and my podcast Pax Britannica follows the people and events that built that empire into a global
0:20.6	superpower. Learn the history of the British Empire by listening to Pax Britannica,
0:25.2	everywhere you find your podcasts, or go to pod.linkslashpax.
0:36.4	Erri Nini in Chen, greetings to you. Welcome back to the history of Egypt podcast,
0:42.6	episode 173, a forgotten campaign. Today, we follow the Egyptians into shadowy lands.
0:51.1	An artifact identified in the 1970s, but lost for decades, and then rediscovered
0:57.6	tales of King Horumheb's efforts to extend the empire. This artifact has a complicated history,
1:04.0	but it hints and fascinating events. Let's explore. Today's episode comes to you on behalf of Amir,
1:11.0	Joseph, and Lois. These fine folks joined the podcast as overseers on patreon.com.
1:18.2	Thank you kindly. Your support allows the Pharaoh to build great ships and sail the Mediterranean,
1:24.5	to visit distant lands both friendly and hostile, and to return with gifts for the greatest
1:31.2	of gods. Amir, Joseph, Lois, thank you kindly. Your support is most generous, and I am in your
1:38.6	dead. To everyone listening, thank you for joining me. Come, let us make our way north,
1:45.9	following Pharaoh's armies.
2:05.3	The year was 1316 BCE, give or take. Egypt lived under the power of Joseph Kebaroo Rah,
2:14.4	sacred other forms of Rah. The Setep Emrah, chosen by Rah,
2:20.3	Horumheb Mi Amun, Horus infestival the beloved Amun, the Pharaoh of Egypt. It was now the 16th year
2:29.1	of Horumheb's reign. For some, that might sound surprising. Didn't Horumheb die in like year 13 or
2:37.2	14? Yes, some historians do argue that. But there are valid reasons for thinking that Horumheb
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