The Inscription of Queen Katimala at Semna: Textual Evidence for the Origins of the Napatan State
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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The Inscription of Queen Katimala at Semna: Textual Evidence for the Origins of the Napatan State
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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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780974002538 |
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| Publisher: | Yale Egyptology |
| Publication date: | 12/31/2006 |
| Series: | Yale Egyptological Studies , #7 |
| Pages: | 130 |
| Product dimensions: | 8.30(w) x 10.90(h) x 0.40(d) |
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