Thutmose III (Part 6): Personal Correspondence in Thebes.
148 – 1460 BCE. Letters are a rare and exciting find in Egyptian archaeology. Imagine our good fortune to possess an entire corpus from one individual: Ahmose, “Peniaty’s man,” a middle-class Egyptian living and working in the Egypt of Thutmose III….
Bibliography
- Edward F. Wente, Letters from Ancient Egypt, 1990.
- S.R.K. Glanville, “The Letters of Aahmose of Peniati,”Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14 (1928) JSTOR
- T. Eric Peet, “Two Eighteenth Dynasty Letters,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 12 (1926) JSTOR
- Elizabeth Frood, “Social Structure and Daily Life,” in Toby Wilkinson (ed.) The Egyptian World 2010.
This was a lovely episode!