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Informationen zum Autor Joyce Tyldesley lives in Bolton, Lancashire. She gained a first-class honours degree in archaeology from Liverpool University in 1981 and a doctorate from Oxford in 1986. She is now Honorary Research Fellow at the School of Archaeology, Classics andOriental Studies at Liverpool University and a freelance writer and lecturer on Egyptian archaeology. Daughters of Isis: Women of Ancient Egypt, is published by Penguin and her next book - a biography of Nefertiti - will be delivered in May 1997. Klappentext Egypt's Queen-or, as she would prefer to be remembered, King-Hatchepsut ruled over an age of peace, prosperity, and remarkable architectural achievement (c. 1490 b.c.). Had she been born a man, her reign would almost certainly have been remembered for its stable government, successful trade missions, and the construction of one of the most beautiful structures in the world-the Deir el-Bahri temple at Luxor. After her death, however, her name and image were viciously attacked, her monuments destroyed or usurped, her place in history systematically obliterated. At last, in this dazzling work of archaeological and historical sleuthing, Joyce Tyldesley rescues this intriguing figure from more than two thousand years of oblivion and finally restores the female pharaoh to her rightful prominence as the first woman in recorded history to rule a nation. Zusammenfassung Queen - or, as she would prefer to be remembered King - Hatchepsut was an astonishing woman. Brilliantly defying tradition she became the female embodiment of a male role, dressing in men's clothes and even wearing a false beard. Forgotten until Egptologists deciphered hieroglyphics in the 1820's, she has since been subject to intense speculation about her actions and motivations. Combining archaeological and historical evidence from a wide range of sources, Joyce Tyldesley's dazzling piece of detection strips away the myths and misconceptions and finally restores the female pharaoh to her rightful place. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Backdrop: Egypt in the Early Eighteenth Dynasty 2. A Strong Family: The Tuthmosides 3. Queen of Egypt 4. King of Egypt 5. War and Peace 6. Propaganda in Stone 7. Senenmut: Greatest of the Great 8. The End and the Aftermath Notes Further Reading Index Plates 1. The Temple of Amen at Karnak. (Werner Foreman Archive) 2. The Valley of the Kings. 3. Hatchepsut as king offering before the barque of Amen. (Block from the Chapelle Rouge, Open-Air Museum, Karnak) 4. The God Amen. (Cairo Museum garden) 5. Seated statue of Hatchepsut from Djeser-Djeseru showing the king with a female body and male accessories. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund and Edward Harkness Gift, 1929 [29.3.2]) 6. The near-identical figures for King Hatchepsut and King Tuthmosis III, Hatchepsut in front. (Block from the Chapelle Rouge, Open-Air Museum, Karnak) 7. Scene showing the gods crowning King Hatchepsut, which had been attacked in antiquity. 8. Head of Hatchepsut. (Cairo Museum) 9. Granite statue of Hatchepsut. (Open-Air Museum, Karnak) 10. Red granite sphinx of Hatchepsut. (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1931 [31.3.166]) 11. The standing obelisk of Hatchepsut at the heart of the Temple of Amen, Karnak. (Werner Foreman Archive) 12. a) and b) Djeser-Djeseru . 13. Senenmut and the Princess Neferure. (Cairo Museum and British Museum) 14. Senenmut and Neferure.(Cairo Museum) 15. Osiride head of Hatchepsut. (Cairo Museum) 16. The carefully erased image of Hatchepsut. (Temple of Amen, Karnak) 17. Tuthmosis III. (Luxor Museum) Figures CHAPTER 1 1.1 The cartouche of King Sekenenre Tao II 1.2 The cartouche of King Kamose 1.3 The cartouche of King Ahmose 1.4 Old and New Kingdom soldi...
