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The History of Egypt Podcast

28: The King in the North

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

History, Society & Culture

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2014

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Montuhotep II (Part 2): A King and His Court. Montu-Hotep II had established himself as King of Upper and Lower Egypt. But would he be able to keep his power, in the wake of challenges? 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. Select Bibliography: Herbert Winlock, “The Theban Necropolis in the Middle Kingdom,” American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, 1915 (JSTOR). Dorothea Arnold, “Amenemhat I and the Early Twelfth Dynasty at Thebes,” Metropolitan Museum of Art Journal, 1991. Wolfram Grajetzki, The Middle Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, 2006. Wolfram Grajetzki, Court Officials of the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, 2009. Gay Robins, The Art of Ancient Egypt, 1997/2008. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:37.0

Episode 28, The King in the North.

0:41.0

In approximately 20 bc.C. Montu Hautep the second, King of Upper and Lower Egypt, had secured

0:50.2

his kingdom by conquest, reasserting a single monarchy over the Nile Valley and Delta, from

0:57.4

Elefantine to Memphis.

1:01.2

In episode 27, we visited the funerary monument which Montu Hotepe commissioned at

1:07.4

dear El Bahari, a terrorist construction of great size and elegance dedicated to the worship of a king who had successfully

1:17.3

restored the divine order to Egypt.

1:20.9

Now, Montu Hoteps architects and laborers continued their work on the grand funerary temple, slowly

1:28.4

expanding and developing it until it became the largest and most complex structure developed since the 5th dynasty.

1:37.0

To commemorate his victory over the North,

1:40.0

Monte Hoteb commissioned a series of enormous statues to stand at the front of his temple.

1:47.0

Only one survives today.

1:50.0

An enormous statue of the king wrapped in the burial shroud of Osiris and wearing the red crown of lower Egypt.

1:58.6

The statue was part of a series, half of which bore the white crown of upper Egypt, and the other half

2:06.4

wearing the crown of the north. The statues were designed as a testament to Montu Hotep's successful campaigns and on a theological level

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