140: Tutankhamun

Tut-Ankh-Amun. Early in his reign, the young pharaoh Tut-ankh-Aten changed his name to Tut-ankh-Amun. Why did he do this? What did it mean? And how much control did this young ruler have over his own identity?

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Select Bibliography:

• The Amarna Project Website: with separate pages for background and excavations in 1921, 2002, 2003, 2004.
• Bronze plaques from the House of Ranefer at Wikimedia.
• Kemp, “Tell el-Amarna, 2004,” The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 90 (2004), 14–26.
• Kemp, The City of Akhenaten and Nefertiti: Amarna and Its People (London, 2014).
• J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (Atlanta, 1995).
• E. Peet and C. L. Woolley, The City of Akhenaten, Volume I (London, 1923).
• Schulman, “Military Rank, Title, and Organization in the Egyptian New Kingdom,” Unpublished PhD. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania (1962).
• Spalinger, “Review of Robert Hari, Répertoire onomastique amarnien, 1976,” Journal of Near Eastern studies 39 (1980), 230–1.

• Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation (2nd Edition edn, Cairo, 2017).
• Eaton-Krauss, The Unknown Tutankhamun (London, 2016).
• Gabolde, D’Akhenaton à Toutânkhamon (Paris, 1998).
• Kawai, ‘Studies in the Reign of Tutankhamun’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University (2005).
• J. Leprohon, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary (Wilson, 2013).
• J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (Atlanta, 1995).
• Reeves, The Complete Tutankhamun (Cairo, 1990).

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