The Inscription of Queen Katimala at Semna : Textual Evidence for the Origins of the Napatan State Paperback / softback
by John Coleman Darnell
Part of the Yale Egyptological Studies series
Paperback / softback
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This is the first complete translation and commentary on the important tableau and inscription of Queen Katimala/Karimala at Semna.
Proper understanding of the paleography, grammar and content reveals Katimala to have been a Nubian ruler at the time of the Twenty-First to Twenty-Second Dynasties of Ancient Egypt.
She emerges as a political and military leader who took control of at least Lower Nubia in the wake of failed military activities on the part of a male predecessor.
Katimala's inscription is not illegible, as has often been stated, but is a well-composed Lower Nubian example of a politico-religious manifesto applying many of the conventions of early Egyptian literary and historical compositions.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:126 pages
- Publisher:Yale Egyptological Institute
- Publication Date:31/12/2006
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- ISBN:9780974002538
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:126 pages
- Publisher:Yale Egyptological Institute
- Publication Date:31/12/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780974002538
