Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2022
Abstract
This article provides and analysis of the textual evidence for the role of the Egyptian official Tutu in the Egyptian foreign policy and in the Amarna diplomacy. Tutu’s distinguishing traits and certain themes such as the request of the “breath of life” by foreign rulers, the value of truth, and his role in mediating relations between the pharaoh and the foreigners resonate in the hieroglyphic inscriptions in his tomb at Amarna and in the four Amarna letters in which hi is attested, and his highlights how Tutu was perceived in roughly comparable ways by the Egyptian society and the Levantine rules who corresponded with the pharaonic monarchy.