Archaeology Odyssey

My thanks to John Baines for discussing the translation of Hatshepsut’s throne name with me.

For royal women in general, see Gay Robins, Women in Ancient Egypt (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993).

Gay Robins, “The God’s Wife of Amun in the 18th Dynasty in Egypt,” in A. Cameron and A. Kuhrt, eds., Images of Women in Antiquity rev. ed. (London: Routledge, 1993), pp. 65–78.

M. Gitton, “Le rôle des femmes dans le clergé d’Amon à la 18e dynastie,” Bulletin de la Société française d’Égyptologie 75 (1976), pp. 31–46.

Y. Meshorer, Ancient Jewish Coinage, vol. 2 (Dix Hills, NY: Amphora Books, 1982), p. 20.

A. Reifenberg, Ancient Jewish Coins (Jerusalem: R. Mass, 1988 ), nos. 8–11, 13, 18, 19, 20.

Merrillees, “Highs and Lows in the Holy Land: Opium in Biblical Times,” Eretz-Israel 20 (1989).

The diadem is similar to an ivory carving from seventh-century B.C. Samos (Kritikos and Papa-daki, “The history,” p. 35.).

Kritikos and Papadaki, “The history,” p. 29.

See R. Joffroy, “La Tombe de Vix,” Foundation Eugéne Piot. Monuments et Mémoires 48:1 (1954); C. Picard, “Le diadéme d’or de Vix: pavots et Pégases,” Revue archéologique 45 (1955).