172: Wise Like Thoth

Horemheb's favourite god. Throughout his life, Horemheb commissioned monuments and artefacts that honoured Djehuty (Thoth). As a courtier, then a King, Horemheb showed a certain favour towards this god. Why did he like this god, in particular, and what do these artefacts tell us about Horemheb as a person?

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Logo image: Horemheb as a Scribe, statue in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Read the Hymn to Thoth at the Metropolitan Museum of Art website.

Music interludes by Luke Chaos, Hathor Systrum, and Keith Zizza.


Select Bibliography:

N. Allon, Writing, Violence, and the Military: Images of Literacy in Eighteenth dynasty Egypt (1550-1295 BCE). (2019).

B. G. Davies, Egyptian Historical Records of the Later Eighteenth Dynasty, VI (1995).

M. Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature Volume II: The New Kingdom (1976).

W. J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (1995).

K. Sowada, ‘A Late Eighteenth Dynasty Statue in the Nicholson Museum, Sydney’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 80 (1994), 137–43.

H. E. Winlock, ‘A Statue of Horemhab before His Accession’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 10 (1924), 1–5.


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