144b: Sennedjem, Menay

Caregiver and Tutor. Young Tut’ankhamun had multiple caregivers. We have already met Maia, the menat of the King. Now, we meet Sen-nedjem, the menay. From his large (but overlooked) tomb, Sen-nedjem left a record of his work, family, and beliefs. We explore this monument and get a sense of his world…

• Date: c. 1353 – 1340 BCE
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• Music by Keith Zizza.
• Music by Jeffrey Goodman.
• Audio mixing/editing by Vincent Cavanagh. 
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Select Bibliography:

•  A. Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation (2nd edn, Cairo, 2017).
• M. Eaton-Krauss, The Unknown Tutankhamun (London, 2016).
• M. El-Ghandour, ‘Coffin of Senqed from Saqqara’, in B. G. Ockinga (ed.), A Tomb from the Reign of Tutankhamun at Akhmim, The Australian Centre for Egyptology Reports 10 (Warminster, 1997), 49–53.
• M. Gabolde, Toutankhamon (Paris, 2015).
• Z. Hawass, Discovering Tutankhamun: From Howard Carter to DNA (Cairo, 2013).
• N. Kawai, ‘Studies in the Reign of Tutankhamun’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, Johns Hopkins University (2005).
• B. G. Ockinga, A Tomb from the Reign of Tutankhamun at Akhmim (The Australian Centre for Egyptology Reports 10; Warminster, 1997).

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