The Double Kingdom Under Taharqo : Studies in the History of Kush and Egypt, c. 690 - 664 BC

• Superior document: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East
• Author: Pope, Jeremy W.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Culture and History of the Ancient Near East
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (349 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In The Double Kingdom under Taharqo, Jeremy Pope examines the strategies used by Taharqo, a Kushite pharaoh of ancient Egypt's Twenty-Fifth Dynasty, to govern Nubia and Egypt together during the seventh century BC.

Table of Contents

Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Maps; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Terminology, Chronology, Orthography, and Maps; Chapter One Introduction; Chapter Two Meroë as a Problem of Twenty-Fifth Dynasty History; II.1. Historia Quaestionis: Meroë and Origins; II.2. Meroë as Ancestral Seat of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty; II.2.1. Apologia; II.2.2. Critique: Twenty-Fifth Dynasty Origins and the Site of Meroë; II.3. Meroë as Early Twenty-Fifth Dynasty Annex; II.3.1. Apologia; II.3.2. Critique: The Architectural Chronology of Meroë City

II.4. Beyond Origins: The Annexation of MeroëChapter Three The Invention of Tradition in the Dongola-Napata Reach; III.1. Gebel Barkal and Napata: Between Ritual and Governance; III.2. Taharqo and Kawa; III.2.1. The Cult of Amun-Re at Kawa before Taharqo; III.2.2. Taharqo's Visit to Kawa; III.2.3. Taharqo's Renovation of Kawa; III.3. Taharqo and Sanam; III.3.1. Excursus 1: The Sanam Historical Inscription; III.3.2. Translation and Commentary; III.3.2.1. SHI Section I: Travel Narrative and Temple Construction (Figs. 10-24)

III.3.2.2. SHI Section II: List of Peoples Donatedbb to Amun-Re, Bull of the Land of the St-Bow (Figs. 27-31)III.3.2.3. SHI Section III: River Procession (Figs. 31-33); III.3.2.4. SHI Section IV: List of Vegetal and Vessel Offerings (Figs. 33-35 and 37); III.3.2.5. SHI Section V: A Hearing(?) (Figs. 36-38 and 40); III.3.2.6. SHI Section VI: (Punitive?) Visit to a Riverine Town (Figs. 39-42 and 44); III.3.2.7. SHI Section VII: An Episode at Napata (Figs. 43-45); III.3.2.8. SHI Section VIII: Temple Foundation Ceremony and Offerings (Figs. 46-47)

III.3.2.9. Additional Fragments from SHI (Figs. 48-50)III.3.3. Summary of the Sanam Historical Inscription; III.4. Post-Twenty-Fifth Dynasty Inscriptions and Twenty-Fifth Dynasty Administration; Chapter Four The Internal Frontier: Lower Nubia, the Batn el-Hagar, and the Abri-Delgo Reach; IV.1. Settlement History; IV.2. The Semna Stela of Montuemhat; IV.2.1. Montuemhat, Middle Kingdom Official at Semna; IV.2.2. Montuemhat, Mayor of Thebes at Semna; IV.3. Administration; IV.4. Fortification; IV.5. The Lower Nubian Graffiti of Year 19; IV.5.1. Translation and Commentary (Fig. 63)

IV.5.2. Historical Significance of the GraffitiChapter Five The City as State: Thebes and the Double Kingdom; V.1. Thebes as Model?; V.1.1. Upper Egypt and Regional versus National Kuschitenherrschaft; V.1.2. Seven for Thebes: Families and Their Fates under Kushite Rule; V.2. Excursus 2: The Problem of Meritefnut; V.2.1. Meritefnut Amenirdis (II); V.2.2. Meritefnut, Original Successor to Shepenwepet II; V.2.3. Meritefnut, "God's Wife" in Nubia; V.2.4. Meritefnut Nitocris (I); V.2.5. Meritefnut Shepenwepet (II); Chapter Six "El Fiel de la Balanza": Aristocracy and Institution in Middle Egypt

VI.1. Periodization and Administration