Aidan Dodson

Crown Prince Djhutmose and the Royal Sons of the Eighteenth Dynasty

A survey of the known monuments of Prince Djhutmose, eldest son of Amenophis III, and of the role of the royal prince in the Eighteenth Dynasty. To this is appended a full list of such princes, and a reassessment of certain relationships.

The prophet of Amun Iuput and his distinguished ancestors

The publication of two fragments in a private collection, deriving from the cartonnage mummy-case of the Prophet of Amun Iuput (B), a descendent of Osorkon I through his eldest son, the High Priest of Amun Shoshenq. The paper also publishes a coffin lid bearing the name of Iuputs father, Osorkon D, and now in Stockholm (NME 838), and discusses various issues surrounding the family. Amongst other points, it is concluded that the High Priest Shoshenq should not be equated with any King Shoshenq, and that his mother, Maatkare B, died prior to the accession of Osorkon I.

A funerary mask in Durham and mummy adornment in the late second intermediate period and early eighteenth dynasty

The publication of a mummy mask of the early Eighteenth Dynasty in the Oriental Museum, University of Durham. It is discussed in relation to several other masks datable to the period from the Seventeenth Dynasty through to the earlier years of the New Kingdom.

Psusennes II and Shoshenq I

The publication of a text naming both Psusennes II and Shoshenq I, copied in Theban Tomb A.18 by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson, and now lost.

A Theban Tomb and its Tenants

In 1857, a tomb was discovered by A. H. Rhind on the Sheikh ‘Abd el-Qurna hill, containing rifled mummies, coffins and fourteen labels inscribed in hieratic. The latter, now in Edinburgh, together with two further examples bought on the antiquities market, but now lost, named a series of Eighteenth Dynasty princesses. The labels are to be dated to the Twenty-first Dynasty, the deposit being assessed as a communal reburial made in Year 27 of Psusennes I.

Egypt’s First Antiquarians

Under King Sesostris III (Twelfth Dynasty) two sarcophagi of the Third Dynasty seem to have been removed from tombs below the Step Pyramid and buried within the kings pyramid enclosure, probably as a kind offoundation deposit to complement the complexs imitation of Third Dynasty forms. Their extraction is perhaps our earliest evidence for subterranean exploration based on effectively antiquarian motives.

The Takhats and some other royal ladies of the Ramesside period

This paper discusses the relationships of the royal ladies Takhat who appear on the monuments. It distinguishes two, A, wife of Sethos II and mother of Amenmesse, and B, wife of Prince Montjuhirkopshef B, son of Ramesses III, and mother of Ramesses IX, buried in KV 10, the old tomb of Amenmesse. The other lady depicted in that tomb is identified as the wife of Ramesses IX. In addition, Grists identification of Tyti (QV 52) as a daughter and wife of Ramesses III (JEA 71 (1985), 71-81) is opposed and Amenmesses paternity of Siptah supported.

Late Period, Egypt

The Late Period is a term used to classify either the 26th through 31st or the 27th through 31st Egyptian Dynasties (663/525–332 bce); the 26th Dynasty is sometimes placed in its own separate “Saite Period.”. Keywords: archaeology; Egyptian history

Rishi Coffins and the Funerary Culture of Second Intermediate Period EgyptRishi Coffins and the Funerary Culture of Second Intermediate Period Egypt. By MINIACIGIANLUCA. GHP Egyptology 17. Pp. xviii + 318, pls 8 (colour), figs (in text) 157, tables 9. London, Golden House Publications, 2011. ISBN 978 1 906137 24 3. Price £50.

The rishi — or ‘feathered’ — co n originated during the Second Intermediate Period, with the last known example being made some seven centuries later, during the Twenty-first Dynasty. However, from the reign of Thutmose III through to that of Pasebkhanut I, the last person known to have been buried in one, they were a royalty-only ‘special’, the last private examples dating to the earlier part of the Eighteenth Dynasty. It is this earlier batch of co ns that form the core of this book, a revised English language version of the author’s 2008 University of Pisa doctoral dissertation. While a catalogue of the over one hundred rishi co ns that Miniaci has located in museums, publications, and archives forms the foundation of the study, a much broader investigation of the funerary archaeology of the Second Intermediate Period is built on it. This opens with a chapter giving a historical and funerary overview of the late Middle Kingdom through the Second Intermediate Period. It includes a useful discussion of the origin of ‘mutilated’ hieroglyphs and of the co ns of the Middle Kingdom, before going on to Theban burials of members of the royal court, dynastic classifications, cultural phases, and dynastic lines. In this, while sympathetic to Kim Ryholt’s division of the later Second Intermediate Period Theban polity into separate Sixteenth and Seventeenth Dynasty segments, Miniaci prefers a model that avoids the artificial ‘accuracy’ of dynastic numbering by making the demotion of Itjtawy from a place of authority the key fulcrum — although admitting the di culty in dating this with any confidence. Based on this, three phases of the Second Intermediate Period are identified. The first corresponds to the period while Itjtawy remained the Egyptian capital and Middle Kingdom funerary norms basically continued — albeit with the first appearance of the rishi co n; the second covers the split between the Asiatic-dominated north from the southern Egyptian rump, with significant developments in the southern funerary culture; the third represents the period running up to the expulsion of the Hyksos and the establishment of the Eighteenth Dynasty. Against this background, the book moves on to the iconography of the rishi co n. The author is careful to distinguish ‘true’ rishi co ns from other modes of decoration involving feathers —and excludes the aforementioned post-Thutmose III royal co ns on the grounds of their representing a form that has ‘been reworked in both conceptual and physical design’. While recognising that there is indeed a simplification of the way in which the feathering is used on these royal co ns, the reviewer would argue that even as late as the co n of Pasebkhanut I there are enough elements still present to regard these cases as lineal descendants of the original Second Intermediate Period rishi — contrasting strongly with other ‘feathered’ motifs, e.g. that shown in Miniaci’s fig. 18 — and that tracing those links would have been a useful exercise within the book. The physical structure and decoration of the co ns is then considered, noting that use of native woods can probably be explained by the loss of the ability to easily import better timber from the Lebanon. Most are noted as having been carved from single logs, patched as appropriate, and simply painted and gilded, although P. Amherst 2.3–7, is cited as suggesting that some royal examples might have been inlaid. The use of the nms-headdress on non-kingly co ns of the late Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period is discussed in connection with various Co n Text spells, pointing out also that non-kingly rishi actually have feathering impinging on the headdress, making it no longer a nms in the strict sense of the term. A section analyses the way in which the feathering is arranged and what this implies as to the meaning of the motif. The author doubts the explanations that would make the feathering the protective wings of goddesses — although agreeing that this might be the case with the later ‘evolved’ royal rishi co ns,

P. BM EA 10052, Anthony Harris, and Queen Tyti

Recently rediscovered text copies of what is now P. BM EA 10052, 6.22–23 by Anthony Harris from his Notebook 5, in conjunction with surviving unpublished fragments from this section of the papyrus, identify a Queen Tyti as a Kings Wife of Ramesses III, helping to resolve a long-standing conundrum in the study of the Twentieth Dynasty royal family.