God's Wife, God's Servant
Author: Mariam F. Ayad
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-06-02
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1134127936
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on textual, iconographic and archaeological evidence, this book highlights a historically documented (but often ignored) instance, where five single women were elevated to a position of supreme religious authority. The women were Libyan and Nubian royal princesses who, consecutively, held the title of God's Wife of Amun during the Egyptian Twenty-third to Twenty-sixth dynasties (c.754-525 BCE). At a time of weakened royal authority, rulers turned to their daughters to establish and further their authority. Unmarried, the princess would be dispatched from her father's distant political.