163: Nefertiti's Sister?

Queen Mutnodjmet is a curious case. For some scholars, she may be the lost sister of Nefertiti. This hypothesis has kicked around for over 100 years. Why can’t we resolve it?

Episode details:

• Date: c.1330 BCE.
• Website: www.egyptianhistorypodcast.com.
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• Music: "Hymn to Hathor," by Bettina Joy de Guzman www.bettinajoydeguzman.com
• Interludes by Luke Chaos https://twitter.com/luke_chaos

Select Bibliography:

• A. Dodson, Amarna Sunset: Nefertiti, Tutankhamun, Ay, Horemheb, and the Egyptian Counter-Reformation (2nd edn, 2017).
• M. Gabolde, Toutankhamon (2015).
• W. Grajetzki, Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary (2005).
• R. Hari, Horemheb et la reine Moutnedjemet ou la fin d’une Dynastie (1964).
• R. Hari, ‘La reine d’Horemheb était-elle la sœur de Nefertiti?’, Chronique d’Egypte 51 (1976), 39—46.
• G. T. Martin, Tutankhamun’s Regent: Scenes and Texts from the Memphite Tomb of Horemheb (2016).
• G. T. Martin, The Memphite Tomb of Ḥoremḥeb, Commander-in-Chief of Tutʻankhamūn, 1 (1989).
• G. T. Martin, The Hidden Tombs of Memphis (1991).
• E. Strouhal, ‘Queen Mutnodjmet at Memphis: Anthropological and Paleopathological Evidence’, in L’Egyptologie en 1979 (1982), 317—322.
• E. Strouhal and V. G. Callender, ‘A Profile of Queen Mutnodjmet’, Bulletin of the Australian Centre for Egyptology (1992), 67—75.

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