Between Two Worlds: The Frontier Region between Ancient Nubia and Egypt 3700 BC - 500 ADBRILL, 30 nov 2008 - 628 pagine The Egyptological literature usually belittles or ignores the political and intellectual initiative and success of the Nubian Twenty-Fifth Dynasty in the reunification of Egypt, while students of Nubian history frequently ignore or misunderstand the impact of Egyptian ideas on the cultural developments in pre- and post-Twenty-Fifth-Dynasty Nubia. This book re-assesses the textual and archaeological evidence concerning the interaction between Egypt and the polities emerging in Upper Nubia between the Late Neolithic period and 500 AD. The investigation is carried out, however, from the special viewpoint of the political, social, economic, religious and cultural history of the frontier region between Egypt and Nubia and not from the traditional viewpoint of the direct interaction between Egypt and the successive Nubian kingdoms of Kerma, Napata and Meroe. The result is a new picture of the bipolar acculturation processes occurring in the frontier region of Lower Nubia in particular and in the Upper Nubian centres, in general. The much-debated issue of social and cultural "Egyptianization" is also re-assessed. "...this is a valuable and up-to-date presentation of a huge body of the author’s work, interweaving more general synthesis and compilation of scholarship." David N. Edwards, University of Leicester "This book is a masterpiece! A well of wisdom and information! It is fluently written, analyzing every aspect of Nubia's relations with Egypt and much more. This book should be in every library focused on Ancient Nubia." Dan'el Kahn, University of Haifa, Israel |
Sommario
A Nubian Worshipper of Isis from the Second Century BC | 1 |
Chapter Two Frontiers | 7 |
AGroup Lower Nubia and the Emerging Egyptian State c 3700 2800BC | 23 |
Chapter Four Old Kingdom Domination and the Rebirth of the Native Polities c 2800 2160BC | 53 |
Chapter Five Lower Nubia and First Intermediate Period Egypt c 2160 2055BC | 75 |
Chapter Six Lower Nubia between Kerma and Middle Kingdom Egypt c 2055 1650BC | 79 |
Chapter Seven Kerma Domination in Lower Nubia in the Second Intermediate Period c 1650 1550BC | 103 |
Some Preliminary Conclusions | 119 |
Chapter Thirteen Lower Nubia under the TwentyFifth Dynasty and the Napatan Kings c 795 332BC | 311 |
Chapter Fourteen The Neighbour of Ptolemaic Egypt c 332 30BC | 377 |
Lower Nubia in the Time of the Meroitic Viceroys c 30BC to the Middle of the AD Fourth Century | 427 |
Chapter Sixteen PostMeroitic Lower Nubia before the Advent of Christianity | 515 |
The AGroup and CGroup Chiefdoms and the Kingdom of Noubadia | 531 |
Abbreviations | 543 |
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Chapter Nine New Kingdom Egypt in Nubia c 1550 1069BC | 157 |
Chapter Ten Religion and Society in New Kingdom Nubia | 209 |
The Degrees of Egyptianization | 263 |
Chapter Twelve A Long Silent Interlude? Lower Nubia in the Third Intermediate Period c 1069 795BC | 285 |
Parole e frasi comuni
Abu Simbel administration Amenhotep Amun Amun-Re Aniba archaeological Blemmyes Bonnet Buhen burials C-Group cemetery century BC chapel Chapter chiefdoms chronology cult culture dating decoration deiÞed deÞned Dodekaschoinos Dunham early Egyptian Elephantine elite evidence Excavations Faras frontier Gebel Griffith Habachi Hein Horus identiÞed IIIÕs IIÕs indicate inscription inßuence Intermediate Period Isis Kalabsha Kawa Kerma Khnum king king of Kush kingÕs Kurru Kush Kushite late Lower Nubia Meroitic Middle Kingdom monumental mortuary Napata native Òthe peseto Philae PM VII political pottery prince Ptolemaic Qasr Ibrim Rameses region reign Reisner reßect Rilly Roman royal ruler S.T. Smith sanctuary Satet scene Second Cataract Semna Senusret Senusret III settlement shrine signiÞcant SŠve-Sšderbergh SŠve-SšderberghÐTroy 1991 statue stela Sudan Taharqo temple texts Theban Thebes Thutmose Thutmose III tomb traditional Tšršk Twenty-Fifth Dynasty Upper Nubia viceroy Wadi wall Wawat Zibelius-Chen Þgures Þnds Þrst century