Format:
Online-Ressource
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
9789004262942
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9789004262959
Series Statement:
Culture and history of the ancient Near East v. 69
Content:
Preliminary Material /Jeremy Pope -- I. Introduction /Jeremy Pope -- II. Meroë as a Problem of Twenty-Fifth Dynasty History /Jeremy Pope -- III. The Invention of Tradition in the Dongola-Napata Reach /Jeremy Pope -- IV. The Internal Frontier: Lower Nubia, the Batn el-Hagar, and the Abri-Delgo Reach /Jeremy Pope -- V. The City as State: Thebes and the Double Kingdom /Jeremy Pope -- VI. “El Fiel de la Balanza”: Aristocracy and Institution in Middle Egypt /Jeremy Pope -- VII. Taharqo in Lower Egypt: Saïte Rebellion, Kushite Hegemony, or Pax Napatana? /Jeremy Pope -- VIII. Conclusion /Jeremy Pope -- Bibliography /Jeremy Pope -- Index of Personal Names and Theonyms /Jeremy Pope -- Index of Places and Peoples /Jeremy Pope -- Index of Selected Topics /Jeremy Pope.
Content:
The establishment of Kushite rule over Egypt during the eighth and seventh centuries BC resulted in a state of extraordinary geographic dimensions and ecological diversity, stretching from the tropics of Sudanese Nubia over 3,000 km to the Mediterranean. In The Double Kingdom under Taharqo , Jeremy Pope uses the copious documentary and archaeological evidence from Taharqo’s reign to address a series of questions which have dogged study of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty: how was it possible for one king to control all of that territory? To what extent were the Kushite pharaohs’ strategies of governance influenced by the circumstances of their homeland versus the precedents of Egyptian and Libyan rule? And how did Kushite policies differ from those of their Saïte successors? \'Bringing to bear an impressive mastery of the sources and refreshingly open to anthropological and comparative approaches, Jeremy Pope's study is welcome in providing a close and careful analysis of varied sources, both historical and archaeological.\' David N. Edwards (University of Leicester) \'...a seminal work pioneering a new historical approach to the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty.\' László Török (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789004262942
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The Double Kingdom Under Taharqo: Studies in the History of Kush and Egypt, c. 690 – 664 BC Leiden, Boston : BRILL, 2014 ISBN 9789004262942
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1163/9789004262959
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