Amarna International (Part 2)

The History of Egypt Podcast

Dominic Perry

History, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Mediterranean, Aegean, Pirates. In the 14th Century BCE, records from Egypt hint at piracy and raiding across the sea. And artistic images even show Mycenaeans(?) at the pharaoh's court. All of this may reflect the history behind great stories like the Odyssey... Date: c.1400 - 1300 BCE. Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com. Support the show via Patreon www.patreon.com/egyptpodcast. Make a one-time donation via PayPal payments. Music: Michael Levy, "Odysseus and the Sirens," www.ancientlyre.com. Audio editing by www.yourpodcastpal.com. See the "Mycenaean Papyrus" at the British Museum website. Mycenaean pottery from Amarna, at the Petrie Museum University College London. Select Bibliography: T. Bryce and J. Birkett-Rees, Atlas of the Ancient Near East from Prehistoric Times to the Roman Imperial Period (2016). R. D’Amato and A. Salimbeti, Bronze Age Greek Warrior 1600 – 1100 BC (2011). E. H. Cline, Sailing the Wine-Dark Sea: International Trade and the Late Bronze Age Aegean (1994). T. Everson, Warfare in Ancient Greece: Arms and Armour from the Heroes of Homer to Alexander the Great (2004). J. M. Kelder, ‘Royal Gift Exchange Between Mycenae and Egypt: Olives as “Greeting Gifts” in the Late Bronze Age Eastern Mediterranean’, American Journal of Archaeology 113 (2009), 339—352. J. M. Kelder, ‘The Egyptian Interest in Mycenaean Greece’, Jaarbericht ‘Ex Oriente Lux’ 42 (2010), 125—140. W. L. Moran, The Amarna Letters (1992). E. D. Oren (ed.), The Sea Peoples and Their World: A Reassessment (2000). C. Pulak, ‘Analysis of the Weight Assemblages from the Late Bronze Age Shipwrecks at Uluburun and Cape Gelidonya, Turkey, Volume I’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, Texas A&M University (1996). C. Pulak, ‘The Uluburun Shipwreck and Late Bronze Age Trade’, in J. Aruz et al. (eds), Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. (New Haven, 2008), 289–310. Pulak, ‘Uluburun Shipwreck’, in E. H. Cline (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Bronze Age Aegean (2012), 863—876. F. Rainey, The El-Amarna Correspondence: A New Edition of the Cuneiform Letters From the Site of El-Amarna Based On Collations of All Extant Tablets (2015). L. Schofield and R. B. Parkinson, ‘Of Helmets and Heretics: A Possible Egyptian Representation of Mycenaean Warriors on a Papyrus from El-Amarna’, The Annual of the British School at Athens 89 (1994), 157–70. F. Zangani, ‘Amarna and Uluburun: Reconsidering Patterns of Exchange in the Late Bronze Age’, Palestine Exploration Quarterly 148 (2016), 230—244. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome back to the History of Egypt podcast.
0:17.4	This is a mini episode, Amarna International, Part 2.
0:22.4	Today, we pick up on stories of interaction and communication between Egypt and its neighbors.
0:28.6	From the River Nile, we travel out to the Mediterranean, and we see how Egyptians of the 14th century B.C.E.
0:36.1	Tackled issues like piracy and raids coming from the sea.
0:40.7	Along the way, we even get hints of a connection between these events and famous tales,
0:46.5	like The Odyssey of Homer. It is a curious world.
0:51.4	This episode comes to you on behalf of Cat and their father, Cactus Charlie.
0:56.0	They are patrons of the podcast and fine folks indeed.
1:00.1	Thank you so much for your support.
1:02.2	I hope these tales of Egypt and its neighbours bring lively discussions to your household.
1:08.1	To everyone listening, thank you very much for joining me. Come, let's set sail
1:13.8	and face off against the pirates.
1:27.0	Our first story takes place around 1370 BCE.
1:32.2	It is the reign of Amun Hotep III, the dazzling sundisk, great of strength, the one who is feared
1:38.9	in all foreign lands.
1:41.5	Amun Hotep, the magnificent pharaoh, famous for eternity. In the reign of this king,
1:48.0	a royal official came to prominence. His name was also Amun Hotep, but we know him better as
1:54.9	Amun Hotep the son of Hapu. Amun Hotep Hapu is a famous man. We did a full episode on him, way back when.
2:04.3	Well, there is another tale from his life that I want to tell.
2:08.8	Amunhotep hapu had a long and busy career. He left records of it, preserved on various statues.
2:16.0	These statues tell Amunhotep's biography, and one chapter reveals
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