Issue 6: October 2006
Editorial
The present issue of BMSAES (British Museum
Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan) presents a new departure from
previous issues, as it consists of a set of papers presented at the
Department of Ancient Egypt and Sudan's 2005 International
Colloquium 'Egypt and the Hittites'. The background to this
Colloquium was the marking of fifty years since the Department of
Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities was split into the Department of
Egyptian Antiquities (now the Department of Ancient Egypt and
Sudan) and the Department of Western Asiatic Antiquities (now
Department of the Ancient Near East). The subject of the complex
relationships between the two countries made for a most interesting
meeting, organised by Vivian Davies.
We hope that readers will find their horizons
broadened by the introduction of material on this site which is not
exclusively from Egypt and the Sudan. The speed with which it has
proved possible to publish these papers shows one of the great
advantages of electronic publication.
On a technical note, readers should note that
in the interests of expediency, I have kept the referencing systems
used by the different authors, who come from several different
fields, and have not attempted to make them consistent, although
notes of common abbreviations used in Hittite publications have
been given to help the Egyptologist. I hope this will not be unduly
disturbing to our readers.
Nigel Strudwick
Contents
The ‘Eternal
Treaty’ from the Hittite perspective
Trevor Bryce
Pharoah and
his Brothers
Stefan Jakob
High society
and lower ranks in Ramesside Egypt at home and
abroad
K.A. Kitchen
The failed
reforms of Akhenaten and Muwatalli
Itamar Singer
Forerunners of
the Hattusili-Ramesses treaty
Dietrich Sürenhagen
Le messager
royal egyptien Pirikhnawa
Alain Zivie