Thutmose III (Part 6): The Sed-Festival.
Three years before the Mitanni Campaign (Episode 70), Thutmose celebrated his first jubilee. To do that, he needed a new monument, a few gods, and the ancient equivalent of a baseball bat...
Select Bibliography:
- J.G. Griffiths, “The Costume and Insignia of the King in the Sed-Festival,” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 1955 (JSTOR).
- E.P. Uphill, “A Joint Sed-Festival of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 1961 (JSTOR).
- E.P. Uphill, “The Egyptian Sed-Festival Rites,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 1965 (JSTOR).
- A. Spalinger, “A Remark on Renewal,” Studien zur Altägyptischen Kultur 1990 (JSTOR).
- A. Spalinger, “The Festival Structure of Thutmose III’s Buto Stele,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 1996 (JSTOR).
- Lana Troy, “Religion and Cult during the Time of Thutmose III,” in Thutmose III: A New Biography 2006.
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