Egypt and Kush in Mesopotamian Chronicles
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 diffe...
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| Tipo de documento: | Recurso Electrónico Artigo |
| Idioma: | Inglês |
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Akademie
2021
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Ägypten und Levante
Ano: 2021, Volume: 31, Páginas: 163-178 |
| Outras palavras-chave: | B
Babilônia
B Mesopotamia B ideolog B Kush B Assyria B Chronicles |
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| Resumo: | 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. |
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| ISSN: | 1813-5145 |
| Obras secundárias: | Enthalten in: Ägypten und Levante
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1553/AEundL31s163 |