War up and down the Nile
Catastrophe hits the Theban resistance when King Seqen-en-Re Tao is killed. His body must be retrieved from the battlefield and given proper burial, a task which falls to his widow. The Queen Ahhotep I comes to power as regent, and through political and personal will she keeps the Theban kingdom together.
Soon, Ahhotep and Seqenenre’s son Kamose comes of age and must decide: will he take vengeance, or seek a period of peace?
Bibliography
- Garry J. Shaw. “The Death of King Seqenenre Tao.” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt. 2009. Read online at JSTOR.
- Aidan Dodson & Dyan Hilton. The Complete Royal Families of Ancient Egypt. 2010.
- William Kelly Simpson (editor). The Literature of Ancient Egypt.
- Anthony J. Spalinger. War in Ancient Egypt. 2005.
- Reshafim.org – The Kamose Inscriptions.
Putting aside my issues with the handling of the second intermediate period on this podcaast, which I’ve elaborated elsewhere, this inscription is curious to me.
What is meant by ‘we took your women into the holds of our ships’, I’ve not heard a conqueror use this euphemism before is that like, a sexual slavery thing?
The “letter from Apepi” is a cute touch from Kamose, I like how according to him Pepi is writing about him as ‘the great’ and ‘king of egypt’ lol, very plausible