172: Horemheb, Wise Like Thoth

Horemheb's favourite god. Throughout his life, Horemheb commissioned monuments and artefacts that honoured Djehuty (Thoth). As a courtier, then a King, Horemheb showed a certain favour towards this god. Why did he like this god, in particular, and what do these artefacts tell us about Horemheb as a person?

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• Logo image: Horemheb as a Scribe, statue in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
• Read the Hymn to Thoth at the Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
• Music interludes by Luke Chaos, Hathor Systrum, and Keith Zizza.

Select Bibliography:

• N. Allon, Writing, Violence, and the Military: Images of Literacy in Eighteenth dynasty Egypt (1550-1295 BCE). (2019).
• B. G. Davies, Egyptian Historical Records of the Later Eighteenth Dynasty, VI (1995).
• M. Lichtheim, Ancient Egyptian Literature Volume II: The New Kingdom (1976).
• W. J. Murnane, Texts from the Amarna Period in Egypt (1995).
• K. Sowada, ‘A Late Eighteenth Dynasty Statue in the Nicholson Museum, Sydney’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 80 (1994), 137–43.
• H. E. Winlock, ‘A Statue of Horemhab before His Accession’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 10 (1924), 1–5.

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