64: Beloved Uncle, Senenmut

Hatshepsut's Trusted Advisor. As Hatshepsut's power grew, so did that of Senenmut. A royal courtier, Senenmut found his career accelerating in tandem with the new King. In this episode, we follow Senenmut from his early upbringing to the corridors of power, and his victory over his rivals...

• Date c.1495-1485 BCE.
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Select Bibliography:

Maat-ka-Re.de – ⁠Senenmut⁠

Digital Karnak – ⁠The Obelisks of Hatshepsut/Senenmut⁠

SLU.edu – ⁠Senmut⁠

Ancient Egypt Online – ⁠Neferure⁠

Kara Cooney, The Woman Who Would Be King, 2014.

Dorman, P. F. (1988). The Monuments of Senenmut.

Dorman, P. F. (1991). The Tombs of Senenmut.

Dorman, P. F. (2005a). The career of Senenmut. In C. A. Keller, C. H. Roehrig, & R. Dreyfus (Eds.), Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh (pp. 107–109). Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press.

Keller, C. A. (2005). The statuary of Senenmut. In C. A. Keller, C. H. Roehrig, & R. Dreyfus (Eds.), Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh (pp. 117–119). Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press.

Martín Valentín, F. J., & Bedman, T. (2011). New considerations regarding Senenmut’s TT353 at Deir el Bahari. KMT, 22(3), 58–74.

Roehrig, C. H. (2005). Senenmut, royal tutor to princess Neferure. In C. A. Keller, C. H. Roehrig, & R. Dreyfus (Eds.), Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh (pp. 112–113). Metropolitan Museum of Art; Yale University Press.

Edward F. Wente, “Some Graffiti of the Reign of Hatshepsut,” 1984, ⁠read online⁠.

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