Endnote 15 – Pharaoh’s Man, ‘Abdiel: The Vizier with a Semitic Name
Bernard Mathieu suggested with some good arguments that the children educated in the kap would have been children born on the same day as the future sovereign; see “L’énigme du recrutement des ‘enfants du kap’ dans l’Egypte pharaonique: une solution?” Göttinger Miszellen 177 (2000), pp. 41–48. If it is the case, ‘Abdiel (‘Aper-El) would have been born on the same day as Amenhotep III. Nevertheless, although intriguing, this approach of the question of the “children of the palace” still needs to be confirmed.