Author

Mariam F. Ayad

earned her PhD in Egyptology at Brown University in 2003. Her book, God’s Wife, God’s Servant: The God’s Wife of Amun ca. 740–525 BC was published in 2009 by Routledge. She has held positions at the University of Memphis and the American University in Cairo.

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The Woman as High Priest of Amun in Ancient Egypt

The God’s Wife of Amun was one of the most powerful women in Egypt, controlling large estates, holding vast wealth, and playing a key cultic role at Thebes. After the New Kingdom, the office grew in power, until eventually one God’s Wife became High Priest of Amun, a position traditionally reserved only for men.