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140: Tutankhamun (New Name, New Me)

140: Tutankhamun (New Name, New Me)

You know his name. Early in his reign, the young pharaoh Tut-ankh-Aten changed his name to Tut-ankh-Amun. Why did he do this? What did it mean? And how much control did this young ruler have over his own identity? Date c.1343 BCE www.egyptianhistorypod...

The History of Egypt Podcast

March 14, 202140m 9s

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Tut-Ankh-Amun. Early in his reign, the young pharaoh Tut-ankh-Aten changed his name to Tut-ankh-Amun. Why did he do this? What did it mean? And how much control did this young ruler have over his own identity?

 

Select Bibliography:

 The House of Ranefer
  • The Amarna Project Website: with separate pages for background and excavations in 1921, 2002, 2003, 2004.
  • Bronze plaques from the House of Ranefer at Wikimedia.
  • Kemp, “Tell el-Amarna, 2004,” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 90 (2004), 14–26.
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  • Schulman, “Military Rank, Title, and Organization in the Egyptian New Kingdom,” Unpublished PhD. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania (1962).
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Tutankhamun
  • Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation (2nd Edition edn, Cairo, 2017).
  • Eaton-Krauss, The Unknown Tutankhamun (London, 2016).
  • Gabolde, D’Akhenaton à Toutânkhamon (Paris, 1998).
  • Kawai, ‘Studies in the Reign of Tutankhamun’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University (2005).
  • J. Leprohon, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary (Wilson, 2013).
  • J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (Atlanta, 1995).
  • Reeves, The Complete Tutankhamun (Cairo, 1990).

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