THE NAME THAT REMAINS
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THE NAME THAT REMAINS Book 1
3 parts · 15 h 23 min
Thebes, in the fourth year of the reign. Yami is twenty, a merchant's daughter from a burned Levantine port, entered in a ledger column beside cedar, copper and cattle and walked into the royal household with three hundred and ten others. She is renamed on the spot.
THE NAME THAT REMAINS Book 2
3 parts · 19 h 21 min
Thebes, in the eighth year of the reign. Sati-Hapy has a title, a son and a door that closes, and a princess of Naharin arrives at the same quay she was landed on, with a treaty behind her and three hundred and seventeen people in her train.
THE NAME THAT REMAINS Book 3
3 parts · 17 h 9 min
Thebes, in the sixteenth year of the reign. The office of God's Wife of Amun is vacant, and Sati cannot have it, because the office belongs to the god and not to the king, and the god's establishment has never once been asked for something it did not sell.
THE NAME THAT REMAINS Book 4
3 parts · 17 h 36 min
Thebes, in the twenty-second year of the reign. Sati-Hapy is King's Great Wife and God's Wife of Amun, and the only thing left above her has been held by one woman in the history of Egypt, whose name was chiselled off every wall in the country. The king is fifty-two and has begun to tire in the afternoons.