(Although it seems Pannefer wasn't exactly a butler ... )

Susan Redford, The tomb of Parennefer, butler of Pharaoh Akhenaten: Theban tomb 188. University Park: Eisenbrauns, 2022. Pp. 192. ISBN 9781646021925

Review by Elizabeth Eltze, University of Auckland. eelt001@aucklanduni.ac.nz

King Akhenaten of ancient Egypt’s 18th Dynasty (ca 1353–1336 BCE) undertook religious and social reforms that are considered by many Egyptologists to have been radical. These included establishing a largely henotheistic system of religion, and the shifting of Egypt’s religious, administrative, and political capital from ancient Thebes (in modern Luxor) to a new city, Akhetaten (modern Amarna). This beautifully presented volume from Eisenbrauns provides the current definitive archaeological study of the Theban tomb of Parennefer, “butler” to Akhenaten (designated TT 188).

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