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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Главный автор: Karlsson, Mattias 1973- (Автор)
Формат: Электронный ресурс Статья
Язык:Английский
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Опубликовано: Akademie 2021
В: Ägypten und Levante
Год: 2021, Том: 31, Страницы: 163-178
Другие ключевые слова:B Mesopotamia
B Вавилон (мотив)
B ideolog
B Kush
B Assyria
B Chronicles
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Итог: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.
ISSN:1813-5145
Второстепенные работы:Enthalten in: Ägypten und Levante
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1553/AEundL31s163