26c: A Legacy in Flames - The First Intermediate Period (Part 6)

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

History, Society & Culture

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2014

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Newly researched and updated in 2024. Ta-Wer howled. Around 2000 BCE, the southern kingdom was rising quickly. But the north was not out of the fight. Not by a long shot… Episode chapters: Prologue – A Royal Inspection (00:30). The Fall of Tjeni / Thinis (07:25). The Long Reign of Intef II (11:58). Intef’s Dogs (20:58). Khety Merykara (34:03). Making Ta-Wer Howl (47:25). Conclusion (01:06:37). Epilogue – Intef’s Hymns for Ra and Hathor (01:08:30). Dendera excavations: Moeller and Marouard, The Development of Two Early Urban Centres - Edfu and Dendara (2018). The History of Egypt Podcast: Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Music and interludes by Keith Zizza www.keithzizza.net. Music and interludes by Luke Chaos www.chaosmusick.com. Select Bibliography: A. E. Demidchik, ‘The Reign of Merikare Khety’, Göttinger Miszellen 192 (2003), 25--36. A. Dodson and D. Hilton, The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt (London, 2004). C. Langer, ‘The Political Realism of the Egyptian Elite: A Comparison Between The Teaching for Merikare and Niccolò Machiavelli’s Il Principe’, Journal of Egyptian History 8 (2015), 49--79. R. J. Leprohon, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary (Wilson, 2013). M. Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms (Los Angeles, 1973). M. Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Autobiographies Chiefly of the Middle Kingdom: A Study and an Anthology (Freiburg, 1988). J. Malek, ‘King Merykare and his Pyramid’, in C. Berger et al. (eds), Hommages à Jean Leclant, 4, 4 vols (Cairo, 1994), 203--214. G. Maspero, ‘On the Name of An Egyptian Dog’, Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archaeology V (1877), 127--128. R. B. Parkinson, The Tale of Sinuhe and Other Ancient Egyptian Poems (1940—1640 BC) (Oxford, 1997). R. B. Parkinson, Poetry and Culture in Middle Kingdom Egypt: A Dark Side to Perfection (London, 2002). D. Polz, Die Sogenannte Hundestele des Königs Wah-Anch Intef aus el-Târif: Eine Forschungsgeschichte (Wiesbaden, 2019). D. Polz, ‘Dra’ Abu el-Naga, Ägypten: ein angeblicher Fund aus Dra’ Abu el-Naga. Die sog. Hundestele des Königs Wah-Anch Intef. Eine Forschungsgeschichte’, e-Forschungsberichte des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 2020 (2020), 12--16. S. Quirke, Egyptian Literature 1800 BC: Questions and Readings (London, 2004). D. B. Spanel, ‘The Herakleopolitan Tombs of Kheti I, Jt(.j)jb(.j), and Kheti II at Asyut’, Orientalia 58 (1989), 301--314. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Howdy folks? Dominic here. Before we begin, a quick note. There is an extended version of this
0:06.0	episode available on my Patreon. It is about 20 minutes longer, and it includes a deep dive into
0:12.2	the Southern Kingdom and the people and leaders who left records about their lives. If you would
0:18.4	like a bit of extra detail about these folks, it is available
0:21.5	on Patreon. Link in the episode description. Now then, on with the show.
0:31.4	The year was 1,100 BCE, the late New Kingdom.
0:38.8	A group of Egyptians walked the hills of western Wasset, or Thebes.
0:44.3	It was the third month of the flood season, Arquette, the 18th day, around late October or
0:50.8	early November in the modern Western calendar. The men were well-dressed in finery and
0:57.4	pomp. They were attended by servants carrying parasols and extra sandals for the rocky, hilly roads.
1:05.4	The party had guards, including the Magi Police, protectors of the Western City and the sacred necropolis.
1:13.6	They had scribes, secretaries, attending to the business with pens and papyrus.
1:18.6	Finally, they had priests, knowledge-bearers of ancient rites, rituals of purification, and secret locations. The party was well-equipped and well-staffed,
1:31.3	fulfilling a special purpose. This was a royal mission in service to a king named Remeses,
1:38.3	Rameses, the 9th, to be exact. The group came to inspect the hills of Western Thebes, Wasset immentet. They came to inspect
1:48.4	tombs. The officials walked these paths in response to reports, troubling reports of vandalism
1:55.9	and looting in the cemeteries of the West, and they recorded these rumors and their inspection on a papyrus
2:03.4	document, a papyrus that survives to this day and is now in the British Museum. This document,
2:10.6	3,000 years old, records the ancient work. Quote, the third month of Arquette, day 18, under the person of the king of
2:20.7	southern and northern Egypt, Remesi's beloved of Amun. On this day, we're sent the inspectors
2:27.6	of the great and splendid necropolis, including the scribe of the Chati, the vizier, or prime minister, the scribe of the overseer of
2:37.6	the treasury. They came to examine the graves of the ancient kings and the tombs and resting places
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