244: B(a)y Your Command
The History of Egypt Podcast

244: B(a)y Your Command

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 22, 202623 min
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Siptah & Chancellor Bay. The last years of Dynasty 19 are murky, with hints of disorder and violence. At the centre of affairs, the courtier Bay directed policy and controlled access to King Siptah. Pharaoh himself was sickly, possibly disabled. The power-shift culminated in a rather dramatic break... Music: Keith Zizza and Luke Chaos. Logo image: Siptah, from his tomb KV47 (Davis 1908). Bibliography Bierbrier, M. (2011). Bye-Bye Bay. In M. Collier & S. Snape (Eds.), Ramesside studies in honour of K. A. Kitchen (pp. 19–21). Rutherford. Černý, J. (1966). A note on the chancellor Bay. Zeit...

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Hello, and welcome back to the History of Egypt podcast, episode 244, By Your Command. If you visited the Egyptian palace around 1209 BCE, you would find an unusual setup.

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At the heart of the court on a golden throne, sat a young man, maybe 15 years old. His name was Sipita, or Sa-pet-e-kh, son of the god Petar. Officially, he was the Horus, ruler of Egypt.

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But Sipita was king in name only. True power lay in other hands. To the right of Sipita, on another throne, sat a queen. She wore robes of the finest linen and a tall crown, consisting of a flat cap with two

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