Today’s post features a relief with name and titles of Pharaoh Thutmose III.
Relief of Thutmose III, name and titles. Photo by Leon Mauldin. Boston Museum.
The accompanying informational sign at the Boston Museum explains,
The full titulary of an Egyptian pharaoh contained five separate names. Two of the five names were enclosed in cartouches, or oval rings. The first was the prenomen, or accession name of the king, and the second was the nomen, or personal name. The prenomen (Men-kheper-Re) and nomen (Djehuty-mes, or Thutmose) of Thutmose III are carved on the painted relief above. It once formed the lintel of a doorway in the Dynasty 18 temple of Osiris at Abydos.
See diagram in photo below.
Diagram of Thutmose III name and title. Photo by Leon Mauldin.
Remember that this powerful Pharaoh would have been contemporary with Moses.
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