RT Article
T1 Egypt and Kush in Mesopotamian Chronicles
JF Ägypten und Levante
VO 31
SP 163
OP 178
A1 Karlsson, Mattias 1973-
LA English
PB Akademie
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1797190946
AB This article focuses on African-Mesopotamian relations in general and on how Egypt and Kush (in today’s Sudan) are represented in Mesopotamian chronicles specifically. Mesopotamian chronicles, which belong to a genre that focuses on historiography, contain references to Egypt and Kush in seven different chronicles dating to the Neo-Babylonian period and the Hellenistic period. The results of the study show that Egypt and Kush are not differentiated in the sources; that the references in question deal with military conflicts; and that Egypt appears both in positive and negative terms, thus standing in contrast to the propagandistic genre of Mesopotamian royal inscriptions. Even though Mesopotamian chronicles were primarily a matter for the scholarly elite, these texts provide one piece of the puzzle on how Egypt and Kush were regarded in ancient Mesopotamia.
K1 ideolog
K1 Chronicles
K1 Babylon
K1 Assyria
K1 Mesopotamia
K1 Kush
DO 10.1553/AEundL31s163