The Near Eastern Late Bronze Age is known for heightened political and economic
interconnectivity as kings of wealthy states like Egypt and Hatti competed in the
pursuit of valuable commodities, raw materials and technologies. An outcome of this
interaction is argued to be the creation of a shared elite visual culture, an idiom
of kingship, that has been called the 'International Style' in scholarship. This
dissertation critiques the model and investigates evidence for this so-called style
from Egypt, in particular addressing artefacts from the tomb of Tutankhamen that
have been associated with this style in the past. It challenges the model for a
shared idiom of kingship from Egypt and instead proposes an internal value within
18th royal rhetoric.