The Sheshonq Fragment from Megiddo: A New Interpretation
The limestone fragment inscribed with the royal names of king Sheshonq I was found at Tel Megiddo by the Oriental Institute team in 1925. Since its discovery, the piece has been interpreted as part of a large royal stela, erected by the monarch at the site as a sign of Egyptian hegemony. A recent re...
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| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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University of Chicago Press
2023
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Bulletin of ASOR
Έτος: 2023, Τόμος: 390, Σελίδες: 97-111 |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Megiddo
B Sheshonq I B Egypt and the Levant B Shishak B 22nd Dynasty |
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| Παράλληλη έκδοση: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή
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| Σύνοψη: | The limestone fragment inscribed with the royal names of king Sheshonq I was found at Tel Megiddo by the Oriental Institute team in 1925. Since its discovery, the piece has been interpreted as part of a large royal stela, erected by the monarch at the site as a sign of Egyptian hegemony. A recent reexamination of the original fragment reveals several anomalies in comparison to the known corpus of Egyptian stelae. Among these is the fragment’s unusual thickness, more than 50 cm thick, and the absence of smoothed edges on either of its sides. A comparison with contemporaneous (early 22nd Dynasty) material from both Egypt and the Levant suggests that the fragment was part of an inscription embedded as an architectural element rather than a stela. The results of recent excavations at Megiddo allow for placing the Sheshonq block stratigraphically and perhaps to identify its original location at the site. |
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| ISSN: | 2769-3589 |
| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: Bulletin of ASOR
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1086/727430 |