The lion hunts of Amenhotep III during the first ten years of his reign


The Lion-Hunts of Amenhotep III During the First Ten Years of his Reign is one of a group of five historical and commemorative scarabs made during the reign of Amenhotep III. The set of five scarabs were presumably used to validate, and proclaim his choice of Tiye as his wife.
Each of the five scarabs begin with the identical name pronunciation of Amenhotep, and then the addressing of his wife, Tiye.

Scarab specifics

Because the five memorial scarabs were for public dissemination, multiple copies were made and circulated. Kerrigan's book has a photo of the scarab from the Oriental Institute, Chicago. Budge's reference translates a British Museum scarab-, of 8 lines of text. The Oriental Institute scarab is also a text of 8 lines, but has minor variations from the British Museum scarab; the scarab is pictured in the section for Tiy's Wedding Scarab, but there is no photo of Tiy's Wedding scarab. Instead they use the photo of Amenhotep's Lion Hunts.
Since copies of the five scarabs were made for dissemination, they have been claimed to be a form of 'public information reading', much like a "news release" from a newspaper.

The lion hunt story, line-by-line

The translation of the lion-hunt story in the first 10 years of Amenhotep's reign is:

Line-by-line

List of the 5 scarabs

Complete scarab BM 4096

Introduction with wife Tiye, and entire 8 lines of scarab BM 4096:
Other scarabs with this title have variations of what hieroglyphs are added or omitted because of the multiple copies made of this scarab series.