Aidan Dodson
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first heard May 2026
last heard 3 Jun
Aidan Dodson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Indeed, there is one section of one of the temples, which is built very early in the reign, where she is the sole officiant.
There's no sign of her husband whatsoever.
It's her and her elder daughter are the only ones who are on these particular bits of temple walls, which is really quite something.
I think, though, equally powerful and prominent is her mother-in-law, Queen T.
And I think there's something that tea in many ways provides the prototype for Nefertiti in the sense that the idea of the queen being shown the same size as the king and appearing with all things, that's something which tea probably kicks off at this point.
Although if we can go back in time, go back earlier in the 18th dynasty, we've got Hatshepsut who later becomes a female pharaoh but is prominent as queen.
Again, this kicks off quite late in Amenhotep III's reign as well.
It's the centrality of the royal family to the link with the deity.
In the past,
King and Queen, well, King is the main thing.
Some periods you get the Queen as a big thing.
But the idea of the whole family being central to cult seems to be an innovation of the latter part of the reign of Amenhotep III, which Akhenaten carries on in spades.
And every time you're seeing any kind of act of worship, it's the king, queen, and at least one daughter.
So that unit, the royal family, becomes a really, really important thing.
In a way, it's not ever really been before that.
The family has been sort of an adjunct to the king and queen.
Now the whole family becomes a focal point to it.
The one thing which is unique is about the whole Amarna art style, which is fundamentally new.
Almost everything about it subverts what previous Egyptian art had done.
It's most noticeable in the strange bodily proportions.
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