Book contents
- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Timeline
- Historical Contexts
- Introduction
- Part I The Deep Past
- Part II The Bronze Age
- 4 Merneith
- 5 Šimatum and Kirum
- 6 The Woman of La Almoloya
- 7 The Priestess of Anemospilia
- 8 Hatshepsut
- 9 Puduhepa
- 10 Eritha and Karpathia
- 11 Hatiba
- Part III The Iron Age
- Part IV The Hellenistic Worlds
- Part V The Age of Empire
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
8 - Hatshepsut
from Part II - The Bronze Age
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 January 2023
Book contents
- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Timeline
- Historical Contexts
- Introduction
- Part I The Deep Past
- Part II The Bronze Age
- 4 Merneith
- 5 Šimatum and Kirum
- 6 The Woman of La Almoloya
- 7 The Priestess of Anemospilia
- 8 Hatshepsut
- 9 Puduhepa
- 10 Eritha and Karpathia
- 11 Hatiba
- Part III The Iron Age
- Part IV The Hellenistic Worlds
- Part V The Age of Empire
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
More than a thousand years after Merneith ruled Egypt and a thousand years before Cleopatra, another Egyptian woman forged a place at the heart of Egyptian politics and succeeded in making herself pharaoh, ruling as a king rather than a queen, from around 1473 to 1458 bc. Her royal name was Maatkare, but she is better known to history as Hatshepsut (Figure 8).
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- Women in the Ancient Mediterranean WorldFrom the Palaeolithic to the Byzantines, pp. 82 - 88Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023