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
15 - International Trade in Princesses and Other Goods
(Reign of Amenhotep III, Years 32–33, ca. 1360–1359 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
Egypt's Trading Partners by Land
All Egypt's missions abroad, both the peaceful ones and the battle-ready, journeyed through the eastern wing of the Nile Delta on a coastal road called the “Ways of Horus.” The route was studded with forts and customs houses controlling access to the Near Eastern lands beyond. One of these was a fort at Tell el Borg near what is now the Suez Canal. A cartouche of Queen Tiy has been found there as well as ceramics dating to this period. Another six miles to the west was the fortress at Tjel (Tjaru) by modern Qantara. Its commandant, Thutmose, gained enough wealth to afford sending eight signed gift jars to Malkata during the jubilee years.
The Ways of Horus led across the northern part of the Sinai Peninsula to Palestine and Canaan, not a unified nation but a series of city-states, some in the lowlands along the Mediterranean Sea (Ashdod) and some in the highlands (Jerusalem), with large areas of unsettled and undesirable land between them. Each city-state had its own governor or mayor, but there was no overall ruler during the fourteenth century B.C., except for Egypt's pharaoh, who was represented here not by a viceroy, as in Nubia, but by overseers with military backgrounds who maintained Egyptian authority with the assistance of manpower from Egyptian garrison towns.
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- Amenhotep IIIEgypt's Radiant Pharaoh, pp. 207 - 212Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012