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In memory of
Gregory Drew,
Justified.*1
Overseer of Scribes
in the House of Books,
in gratitude for
many years of friendship
and encouragement

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Contents

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

Part I:
Egypt from its origins
to the reign of Amenhotep III

Part II:
The Amarna period and its
portrayal in Neferneferuaten

I: THE GODS OF KEMET

1. Creation

2. The Travails of Re

3. The Murder of Usír

4. The combat of Hor and Set’kh

5. The Final Judgment

II: NEBMAATRE

6. Kingship in Heaven: the combat
of the Gods of Mitanni

7. Taduḥepa

8. Queen Tiye

9. Mutbenret

10. The Falcon has flown

III: NEFERKHEPERURE-WAENRE

11. Per-Aten

12. Akhetaten

13. Celebration, Paranoia and Flattery

14. Jubilee, Plague and Plotting

15. Murder

IV: ANKHKHEPERURE

16. Death

17. Smenkhkare

18. Handover of Power

V: NEBKHEPERURE

19. The Boy King

20. Regicide?

21. Killing the King

22. A Letter from the Queen

23. A Tomb fit for a King

24. The Funeral of a Beloved King

VI: KHEPERKHEPERURE

25. Coronation

26. The King’s Speech

27. The Doer of Right

VII: DJESERKHEPERURE SETEPENRE

28. Opet

29. Restoration

Notes

*1 Justified:

The conventional Egyptian epithet for someone who has completed this life, passed to the next, undergone the judgment of the gods, (i.e. for Egyptians the weighing of the heart by Anubis and Thoth), been declared “Justified” or “True of Voice” and then received into paradise.
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