Mrs. Naunakhte & Family: The Women of Ramesside Deir al-Medina
Koenraad Donker van Heel
Abstract
The so-called Will of Naunakhte (1154 BCE) has become rightly famous in Egyptology. Naunakhte was a woman from the New Kingdom village of Deir al-Medina who made a statement in court about her inheritance. So what really happened to her eight surviving children, four of whom were daughters? By carefully studying the documents mentioning members of the family and including all the material mentioning the women of the New Kingdom village of Deir al-Medina and other sources, the book puts to the forefront the remarkable role played by ordinary women in ancient Egypt. The book is an unprecedented ... More
Keywords: ordinary women, Will of Naunakhte, Egyptology, Deir al-Medina, ancient Egypt, children, Naunakhte
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2016 | Print ISBN-13: 9789774167737 |
| Published to Cairo Scholarship Online: September 2017 | DOI:10.5743/cairo/9789774167737.001.0001 |
