The History of Egypt Podcast 184b: Feeding the Fighters
Jul 14, 2023
33:37
Sety I (Part 6b): Standards and Practices. The early 19th Dynasty army was a well-organised machine, with distinct units (the zA ‘company’) and officers (e.g., chai sereet, ‘Standard Bearers’). Papyrus archives record the daily business of military life, like the Standard Bearer Mai-Sety / Mai-Sutekhy, the company scribe User-Hat, and the royal administrators that monitored food deliveries, rations, and supplies of essential goods…
Details and sources:
- Date: c. 1300 BCE.
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- Music intro and interludes: Luke Chaos.
- Music outro: Bettina Joy de Guzman (Ancient Lyric).
- Texts: Kenneth Kitchen's Ramesside Inscriptions volume 1. Hieroglyph versions at Internet Archive, English translations at Abercromby Press.
- Peter Brand, Ramesses II: Egypt's Ultimate Pharaoh, out now from Lockwood Press.
Select Bibliography:
- S. Allam, ‘Trois missives d’un commandant (Pap. CGC 58053-5), (avec 5 planches)’, Annales du Services des Antiquités de l’Egypte 71 (1987), 5–27.
- A. H. Gardiner, ‘The Ancient Military Road between Egypt and Palestine’, The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 6 (1920), 99–116.
- B. Heagren, ‘The Art of War in Pharaonic Egypt’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, The University of Auckland (2010).
- M. Healy, Qadesh 1300 BC: Clash of the Warrior Kings (1993).
- K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions Translated and Annotated: Notes and Comments, I (1993).
- K. A. Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions Translated and Annotated: Translations, I (2017).
- S. McDermott, ‘Ancient Egyptian Footsoldiers and Their Weapons: A Study of Military Iconography and Weapon Remains’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, The University of Manchester (2002).
- A. R. Schulman, ‘Military Rank, Title, and Organization in the Egyptian New Kingdom’, Unpublished PhD. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania (1962).
- A. J. Spalinger, Aspects of the Military Documents of the Ancient Egyptians (1982).
- A. J. Spalinger, ‘The Army’, in T. Wilkinson (ed.), The Egyptian World (2007), 118–131.
- The Epigraphic Survey, Reliefs and Inscriptions at Karnak Volume 4: The Battle Reliefs of King Sety I (1986).
- E. F. Wente, Letters from Ancient Egypt (1990).
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