The course readings are located either in the Addlestone Library Reference Room or on Two-hour Reserve. Most citations in the Reading Assignment-list below are marked with a locator code: RS = Reserve; Ref = Reference Room;Per = Periodicals Room; W = Web Page.

The class readings are located either among the course textbooks, or they are available for downloading and reading by linking to them from this "Reading Assignments"-web page. Over the course of the semester, the instructor might make others available through the Addlestone Library (reference, reserve, or periodicals sections). Those citations in the reading list below not found in the course textbooks are marked with the locator code: RS = Addlestone Library Reserve or Per = Library Periodicals Room or W = this Web Page.

Lectures and Reading Assignments

Week 1: January 10
	(1/10) Introduction: Course Description, Goals and Objectives
	
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Week 2: January 15 and 17	
	(1/15) How to Question Historical Texts and Documents
W 		Piccione, "A Taxonomy of Historical Questioning" (click to open).
		Last day to Drop/Add
		
	(1/17) The Geography of Egypt, the Nile Valley and Beyond, Pt. 1
W 		H. Kees, "The Countryside," sects. A-B, including: "The Nile
			and the Seasons," "Irrigation and Soil," 47-61 (click to open);
W 		Hoffman, M. "The Two Lands: An Ecological Perspective," 23-32. (click to open);
W		"The Hymn to Hapy (Nile Inundation)" (click to open).
	
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Week 3:  January 22 and 24
	(1/22) The Geography of Egypt, the Nile Valley and Beyond, Pt. 2
W 		Piccione, "Basin Irrigation in Ancient Egypt" [Web essay] (click to open).
	
	(1/24) The Framework of Egyptian History, Pt. 1
		Shaw, ed., "Introduction: Chronologies and Cultural Change in Egypt," 1-15;
W 		Brewer and Teeter, "A Chronology and History of Egypt" (extract), 39-59 (click to open).

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Week 4: January 29 and 31
	(1/29) The Framework of Egyptian History, Pt. 2
Ref		Murnane, W. "The History of Ancient Egypt: An Overview," in CANE, ed. J. Sasson, vol. 2,  691-717;
W 		Abu Bakr, "Pharaonic Egypt," 62-78 (click to open);
W 		Piccione, "The Role of the King and the Structure of Egyptian Society" [Web essay] (click to open);
Ref		M-A Bonheme, "Kingship," in Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt, ed. D. Redford, vol. 2, 238-245.

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Week 5: February 5 and 7
	(2/5) The Egyptian Middle Kingdom: Run-up to Empire
		Calendar, G., "The Middle Kingdom Renaissance (c. 2055-1650 BC)," in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 137-171;
W 		"The Instruction of King Amenemhet I for His Son Sesostris I," Lichtheim, AEL 1 (click to open);
W 		"The Tale of Sinuhe," Lichtheim, AEL 1 (click to open);
W 		"The Loyalist Instructions from the Stela of Sehetepibre" (click to open);
W 		"The Autobiography of Khnumhotep II" (click to open).
	
	(2/7) Middle Kingdom (cont'd.)
Ref		Hayes, W.C., "The Middle Kingdom in Egypt," Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 1, pt. 2 (ch. 20);
W 		"The Annals of Amenemhat II" (click to open);
W 		"Sesostris III Boundary Stela of Year 8" (click to open);
W 		"Boundary Stela of Sesostris III [Year 16]," Lichtheim, AEL 1 (click to open);
	
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Week 6: February 12 and 14		
	(2/12) Middle Kingdom in Nubia
		
	(2/14) Dynasty 13 and the Fall of the Middle Kingdom
	
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Week 7:  February 19 and 21
	(2/19) Second Intermediate Period: The Hyksos in Egypt
	
	(2/20) Last day to withdraw with grade of "W"
	
	(2/21) Second Intermediate Period: Dynasty 17 in Thebes
	
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Week 8: February 26 and 28
	(2/26) Dynasty 17 and the Expulsion of the Hyksos
		Bourriau, J., "The Second Intermediate Period (c. 1650-1550 BC),"
				in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 172-206;
W 		Wente, E. F., "The Quarrel of Apophis and Seknenre," 77-80 (click to open);
W 		Smith, H. S. and Smith A., "The Kamose Texts," 59-62 (click to open);
		"Autobiography of Ahmose Son of Abana," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 12-15;
W 		"Autobiography of Ahmose Pennekhbet," adapted from Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt 2 (passim) (click to open).
			 
	(2/28) Expulsion of the Hyksos and the Establishment of Dynasty 18 
W/Ref		James, T.G.H., "Egypt: From the Expulsion of the Hyksos to Amenophis I,"
			in Cambridge Ancient History, vol. 2, pt. 1 (ch. 8), 3-30; (click to open);
			"The Prayers of Paheri," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 15-21;
W 		"The Praises of (Queen) Ahhotep" (click to open).
	
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		+ + + SPRING BREAK: March 2 through 8 + + +
	
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Week 9: March 11 and 13		
	(3/11) The Early 18th Dynasty and the Rise of the Egyptian Empire
		Bryan, B., "The 18th Dynasty before the Amarna Period (c. 1550-1352 BC),"
			in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 207-228;
		Shaw, I., "Egypt and the Outside World," in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 308-323;
		Spalinger, "Prelude to New Kingdom Warfare," 1-32;
		Spalinger, "The Southern and Northern Expansion," 46-69.
		
	Midterm Grades Available on Cougar Trails
		
	(3/13) Hatshepsut: Queen Regnant and Pharaoh
		Bryan, B., "The Regency of Hatshepsut," in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 228-235;
W 		“Divine Conception of Queen Hatshepsut,” 119-121 (click to open); [C. JORDAN]
W 		"Amun's Nomination of Queen Hatshepsut" (click to open); [C. JORDAN]
		"Great Obelisk Inscription of Queen Hatshepsut," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 25-29; [C. COOK]
W 		"The Speos Artemidos Inscription" (click to open). [C. COOK]
	
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Week 10: March 18 and 20		
	(3/18) Thutmose III and the Formalization of Empire
		Bryan, B., "Thutmose III's Sole Rule," in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 235-241;
		Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt, 83-109;
W 		Piccione, P., "The Women of Thutmose III in the Stelae of the Cairo Museum,"
			JSSEA 30 (2003): 90-102 (click to open);
W/Ref		"The Divine Nomination of Thutmose III," in ANET, 446-447 (click to open); [R. LESCHAK]
		"Annals of Thutmose III," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 29-35; [R. LESCHAK]
W/Ref		"Armant Stela of Thutmose III," in ANET, 234 (click to open); [R. LESCHAK]
		"Poetical Stela of Thutmose III," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 35-39; [S. PITTMAN]
W/Ref		"Gebel Barkal Stela," in ANET, 240 (click to open); [S. PITTMAN]
W/Ref		"Biography of Amenemheb," in ANET, 240-241 (click to open). [S. PITTMAN]

		
	(3/20) Amenhotep II through Thutmose IV: Rise of Diplomacy
		Bryan, B., in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 241-252;
		Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt, 110-129;
		"Sphinx Stela of Amenhotep II," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 39-43; [B. CRAWFORD]
W 		Wente, E. F. "The Capture of Joppa," 81-84 (click to open). [B. CRAWFORD]

	ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
		
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Week 11: March 25 and 27
	(3/25) Amenhotep III: The Sun on Earth
		Bryan, B., in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 253-264;
		Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt, 130-159;
W 		Johnson, W.R., "The Revolutionary Role of the Sun in the Reliefs and Statuary
				 of Amenhotep III,"OINN 151 (1996): 2-4 (click to open);
		Stela of Amenhotep III," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 43-48; [J. BREWER]
W 		"Marriage Scarab of Amenhotep III: Queen Tiye" (click to open); [J. BREWER]
W 		"Marriage Scarab of Amenhotep III: Princess Gilukhepa" (click to open); [J. BREWER]
W 		"Lion-hunt Scarab of Amenhotep III" (click to open); [E. ATKINSON]
W 		"Scarab of Amenhotep III: Queen Tiye's Sacred Lake" (click to open); [E. ATKINSON]
W 		"Statue of Amenhotep III as a Sacred Image" (click to open). [E. ATKINSON]

	(3/27) Amenhotep IV/Akhenaten: The Amarna Period (I)
		Van Dijk, J., "The Amarna Period and the Later New Kingdom," in Oxford 
			History of Ancient Egypt, 265-279;
		Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt, 160-168;
		"The Later Boundary Stela," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 48-52 [J. BURROWS];
W/Res 		Moran, W. Amarna Letters, (diplomatic exchanges) EA nos. 6, 7, 8,
			9, 10, 11, 17, 26, pp. 12-23, 41-42, 84-85 (click to open).
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Week 12: April 1 and 3	
	(4/1) The Amarna Period (II): The Cult of the Aten
		"The Hymns to the Aten," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 90-100 [S. LEE];
W/Res 		Moran, W. Amarna Letters, (military exchanges) EA nos. 51, 52, 182,
			183, 185, 186, 191, 202, 203, 204, 205, 337, 366, 367, pp. 12-23,
			41-42, 84-85 (click to open) [C. LINDMAN];
	
	(4/3) Tutankhamun, the Restoration and Horemheb
		Van Dijk, J., "The Aftermath of the Amarna Period," in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 279-285;
		Van Dijk, J., "The Historical and Social Repercussions of the Amarna and Ramessid Periods," 
			in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 303-307;	
		Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt, 169-186;
Ref		"Restoration Stela of Tutankhamun," in ANET, 251-252;
W/Ref 		"Suppiluliumas and the Egyptian Queen," in ANET, 319; (click to open); [G. ECONOMOS]
W 		Eyma, A., "Hittite Correspondence in the Zannanza Affair," 
				extracted from Egyptology Electronic Forum (click to open); [G. ECONOMOS]
W/Ref 		Extract from "Plague Prayers of Mursilis," in ANET, 394-395 (click to open); [A. McCONNAUGHHAY]
Ref		"Texts from the Tomb of General Horemheb," in ANET, 250-251; [A. McCONNAUGHHAY]
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Week 13: April 8 and 10
	(4/8) Dynasty 19, Ramesses I and Seti I
		Van Dijk, J. in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 285-288;	
		Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt, 187-208;
		"The Dedication Inscriptions of Seti I," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 52; [H. ABRAMS]
Ref		"A Campaign of Seti I in Northern Palestine," in ANET, 253-254; [H. ABRAMS]
Ref		"Campaigns of Seti I in Asia (a-e)," in ANET, 254-255; [H. ABRAMS]
	

	(4/10) Ramesses II: Resurgent Empire
		Van Dijk, J. in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 288-294;
		Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt, 209-234;
		"The Kadesh Battle Inscriptions of Ramesses II," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 57-72; [M. RACKL]
W/Ref 		"Hattusilis on Muwatallis' War Against Egypt," in ANET, 319; (click to open) [M. GILLETTE]
W 		Beckman, G. "Selections from the Correspondence between the Hittite and Egyptian Courts under
			Hattusili III and Ramses II," from Hittite Diplomatic Texts, 121-129 (click to open); [M. GILLETTE]

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Week 14: April 15 and 17
	(4/15) Dynasty 19: Merneptah to Tauseret
	Van Dijk, J. in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 294-296;
		Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt, 235-248;
		"Poetical Stela of Merneptah (='Israel Stela')," in Lichtheim, AEL 2, 73ff. [S. COLLIDGE];
Ref		"Report of a Frontier Official," in ANET, 259-260; [unassigned]
Ref		"Syrian Interregnum," in ANET, 260; [unassigned]
	
	Income Tax Returns Due to the IRS(!)
		
	(4/17) Dynasty 20, Ramesses III-Ramesses VI: Last Gasp of Empire
	Van Dijk, J. in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 296-303;
		Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt, 249-263;
W/Ref		"The War Against the Peoples of the Sea," in ANET, 262-263; (click to open) [J. QILAL-LAN]
W		Edgerton, W. & J. Wilson  (accounts of the Sea People war), from 
		 	Historical Records of Ramses III, 35-39, 41-43, 45; (click to open) [J. QILAL-LAN]
W/Ref		"Summary of the Northern Wars," in ANET, 262; (click to open) [J. QILAL-LAN]
Ref		"Results of a Trial for Conspiracy," in ANET, 214-216; [unassigned]
	
	TERM PAPER DUE

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Week 15: April 22 Last Day of Class
	(4/22) Dynasty 21, Third Intermediate Period: Post-Imperial Age
		Taylor, J., "The Third Intermediate Period (1069-664 BC)," in Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, 324-339;
		Spalinger, War in Ancient Egypt, 264-277;

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