Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PROLOGUE The Birthplace of Amenhotep III
- 1 An Heir Unapparent
- 2 The Making of an Heir Apparent
- 3 Thutmose IV and King's Son Amenhotep in Nubia
- 4 Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!
- 5 Establishing Divine Might and Divine Right
- 6 “The First Campaign of Victory”: Amenhotep III's River War
- 7 The Spoils of War
- 8 The King's First Two Wives
- 9 The Lost Years
- 10 Bringing Heaven to Earth to See the Living Gods: Building the King's Religious Monuments at Thebes
- 11 Per Hai (“The House of Rejoicing”) at Malkata
- 12 Beneath The Divine Falcon's Wings a New World Takes Shape
- 13 The First Jubilee Festival (Heb-Sed)
- 14 Raising Up Old Officials and Buying a New Bride
- 15 International Trade in Princesses and Other Goods
- 16 A Mixed Forecast: Dazzling Sun and Dark Clouds
- 17 The Last Hurrah
- 18 Whose Heaven Is It? The Reign of Akhenaten and Beyond
- EPILOGUE One God Left Standing
- Notes and References
- Glossary of Ancient Personal Names
- Bibliography
- Index
14 - Raising Up Old Officials and Buying a New Bride
(Reign of Amenhotep III, Years 30 and 31, ca. 1362–1361 B.C.)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- PROLOGUE The Birthplace of Amenhotep III
- 1 An Heir Unapparent
- 2 The Making of an Heir Apparent
- 3 Thutmose IV and King's Son Amenhotep in Nubia
- 4 Le Roi Est Mort, Vive Le Roi!
- 5 Establishing Divine Might and Divine Right
- 6 “The First Campaign of Victory”: Amenhotep III's River War
- 7 The Spoils of War
- 8 The King's First Two Wives
- 9 The Lost Years
- 10 Bringing Heaven to Earth to See the Living Gods: Building the King's Religious Monuments at Thebes
- 11 Per Hai (“The House of Rejoicing”) at Malkata
- 12 Beneath The Divine Falcon's Wings a New World Takes Shape
- 13 The First Jubilee Festival (Heb-Sed)
- 14 Raising Up Old Officials and Buying a New Bride
- 15 International Trade in Princesses and Other Goods
- 16 A Mixed Forecast: Dazzling Sun and Dark Clouds
- 17 The Last Hurrah
- 18 Whose Heaven Is It? The Reign of Akhenaten and Beyond
- EPILOGUE One God Left Standing
- Notes and References
- Glossary of Ancient Personal Names
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Amenhotep Son of Hapu's Monuments
Amenhotep III's deification created a nebulous and unstated vacuum between himself and members of his court because he was now a step above mere king. Therefore, as a result of his becoming a god, his officials rose up a notch, not in title per se, but certainly in terms of eternal real estate and statuary. One was endowed with a temple of his own, others acquired tombs of a size and opulence just a step away from temples themselves. Their statuary was carved in the finest, hardest, most intractable stones, none of it colossal but a great deal of it larger than life.
Amenhotep son of Hapu received the nearly unprecedented gift of his own memorial temple, behind his king's and beside those built for Thutmoses II and III in the kings’ row of royal cult temples. Royal workshops associated with Amenhotep III's monument had apparently been razed and relocated in favor of the great official's shrine. A bird's-eye view places Amenhotep son of Hapu's memorial at the hub of a circle encompassing Kom el Hettan, Malkata palace, the Valley of the Nobles, and the Valley of the Kings. In Amenhotep son of Hapu's afterlife, his spirit could view all that he had accomplished and join in on the various festivals parading right past his front pylon. Two centuries later, Ramesses III built his own temple just a few paces away to the south. Its modern name, Medinet Habu (“Hapu's Town”), does homage to its neighbor.
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- Amenhotep IIIEgypt's Radiant Pharaoh, pp. 197 - 206Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012