History and Chronology of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt: Seven Studies 9781487574918

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HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGY OF THE EIGHTEENTH DYNASTY OF EGYPT

NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST SERIES I.

The Mosaic Tradition. By F. V. Winnett

2.

Safaitic Inscriptions from Jordan. By F. V. Winnett

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History and Chronology of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt: Seven Studies. By Donald B. Redford

History and Chronology of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt

SEVEN STUDIES

DONALD B. REDFORD University of Toronto Press

@ UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS 1967 Printed in U.S.A. Reprinted in 2018 ISBN 978-1-4875-8541-9 (paper)

Contents PREFACE ABBREVIATIONS 1.

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ffy and its derivatives The family of Ahmose: The Seventeenth Dynasty The coregencies of the early Eighteenth Dynasty The reign of Hatshepsut The alleged coregency of Amenhotpe III and Akhenaten The coregency of Akhenaten and Smenkhkare The date of the end of the Eighteenth Dynasty

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APPENDIX

Prolegomena to the history of Syria during the Amarna period

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SPECIAL INDEXES

Index to Egyptian words discussed in the text Index to Akkadian words occurring in the text Index to Greek words occurring in the text

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SUBJECT INDEX

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TO MARGARET

Preface of historical studies is the product of the writer's research for his doctoral dissertation entitled "A Study of the Chronology of the Eighteenth Egyptian Dynasty" (University of Toronto, 1965). To my teachers and colleagues who were kind enough either to read the manuscript or to proffer their discussion on sundry problems goes my warmest appreciation. These include Professors R . J. Williams, F. V . Winnett, A. K. Grayson, R. F. G. Sweet, and R .A. Parker. To Professor Parker I am also indebted for a photograph of the hieratic docket attached to EA 2 7. This work has been published with the help of grants from the Humanities Research Council, using funds provided by the Canada Council, and from the Publications Fund of the University of Toronto Press. D.B.R. Toronto THE PRESENT COLLECTION

ABBREVIATIONS

AAAL: Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology, Liverpool. ABA W: Abhandlungen der bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Acta Or : Acta Orientalia. AfO: Archiv fur Orieniforschung.

Ag. Forsch: Agyptologische Forschungen. AJSL: American Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures.

AKL: The Assyrian King List.

A Mainz; AW: Abhandlungen der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur z;u Mainz;. An. Aeg. : Analecta Aegyptiaca. ANET2 : ]. B. Pritchard (ed.), Ancient Near Eastern Texts Relating to the Old Testament (2nd ed., Princeton, 1955). AO : Der alte Orient. AOB: Altorientalische Bibliothek. APAW: Abhandlungen der preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. ARE : J. H . Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt (5 vols., Chicago, 1906). AS : Assyriological Studies. ASAE: Annales du Service des antiquitis de l' Egypte. BA : Beitriige z;ur Assyriologie und semitischen Sprachwissenschaft. BASOR : Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Bib. Or.: Biblioteca Orientalis. BIE: Bulletin de l' Institut de l' Egypte. BIFAO : Bulletin de l'Institutfranfaise d'archiologie orientate. Bilabel, Geschichte: F. Bilabel, Geschichte Vorderasiens und ,J.'gyptens vom 16. Jahrhundert v. Christus bis auf der Neuz;eit (Heidelberg, 1927). Borchardt, Mittel : L. Borchardt, Die Mittel z;ur z;eitlichen Festlegung von Punkten der iigyptischen Geschichte (Cairo, 1935). Breasted, History: ]. H. Breasted, A History of Egyptfrom the Earliest Times to the Persian Conquest (Bantam, New York, 1964). BSFE: Bulletin de la Sociitifranfaise d'Egyptologie. CAD : Chicago Assyrian Dictionary (Chicago, 1956-). CAH : Cambridge Ancient History (Cambridge, 1962-) . CCG: Cairo, Catalogue ginirale du musie. CdE: Chronique d' Egypte. CoA: T. E . Peet, et al., The City of Akhenaten (4 vols., London, 1923-51). CRAIBL: Comptes rendus de l'Acadimie des inscriptions et belles lettres.

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ABBREVIATIONS

CT: The Coffin Texts. Drioton-Vandier, L'Egypt,e4 E. Drioton and J. Vandier, Les Peuples