Egyptian Dreams

Segereh · Pharaoh Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 2934 Location: Bruges

And lots of working on certain people's nerves.
Not looking at any Kevs in particular... Rolling Eyes

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Smartie · Scribe Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 250 Location: U.S.A.

Was Horemheb trying to be the ancient version of King Henry VIII? Laughing

I've always thought that maybe Horemhem was idle? and could not produce children? though with the low life expectancy on infants back then, I guess he could have actually had a child but he/she or they died young?
could it be that him and Tut are distant relatives? I say this only because neither one of them had a healthy male child. Coudl Horemheb have been a son of Amenhotep III, by a minor wife, who like so many other before and after made a claim to the throne..and actually got it? my fictional mind at work here of course.
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Smartie · Scribe Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 250 Location: U.S.A.

UGH I meant 'Infertil' not 'idle' lol
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Robson · Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2006 10:51 pm Post subject:

KV 55

Smartie · Scribe Joined: 02 Oct 2005 Posts: 250 Location: U.S.A.

why would she get such a crappy burial? I've always assumed that she initially had a great tomb built for her, but we have no evidence of that.
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Robson · Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 12:52 am Post subject:

Maybe because she died in his son's reign and he (Akhenaten) was very fond for family values and probably wished to keep them all together in the huge Amarna Royal Tomb. Later, possibly in Tut's reign her burial regalia was dismantelled and spread between KV 55 and WV 22 (Amenhotep III tomb), which was possibly her last resting (?) place... if she isn't the KV 35's Elder Lady.

Theban Moon · Citizen Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Posts: 35

anneke · Queen of Egypt Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 9305

I looked but don't remember exactly where I read that.
That's quite a few years ago and I'm not sure what articles I had been reading at that point.
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Lutz · Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2012 7:56 am Post subject:

Sothis · Priest Joined: 16 Nov 2009 Posts: 659

Here is a link which I found in the Egyptology News Blog and which could be interesting for this thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lLv58zwGhU

This is the video coverage of a symposium held in connection with the Horemheb exhibition. Speakers are amongst others van Dijk and Allen.

Warning: You`ll need time and patience to watch it as it runs more than three and a half hours. Have fun!

I watched some of it, and I am a bit disappointed that van Dijk made no attempt to explain the absence of the title "Eldest son of Horus" in the tomb which appears in the text of Horemheb`s coronation stela. Instead he stresses the numerous occurrences of the title iripat and iripat of Upper and Lower Egypt which he takes as valid proof that Horemheb was designated heir to the throne of Tut.
I wonder if in the later following discussion section someone will address this problem.

Theban Moon · Citizen Joined: 26 Apr 2009 Posts: 35

Sothis · Priest Joined: 16 Nov 2009 Posts: 659

I don`t know if the references given by Lutz give the same information but in his speech (see previous link) Reeves says that in KV 57 they initially found several skulls and bones from different persons (more persons than the skulls would account for). These remains were found in a storeroom, a sidechamber and the sarcophagus itself.
He suggests that these additional burials date from the third intermediate period and that they together with the possibly returned remains of Horemheb himself formed another kind of cache which was then unfortunately at some point severely disturbed.

cal_105 · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 4:24 am Post subject:

This is related to referenced symposium above. It is a presentation about the reexamination of Horemheb's Royal Tomb in the Valley of Kings in recent times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jrjNcBNF7A&feature=youtube_gdata