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1 online resource (xix, 651 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Probleme der Ägyptologie, 0169-9601 ; 29. Bd |
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Probleme der Ägyptologie ; 29. Bd.
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| Contents |
List of Tables in the Text; List of Plates; Preface and Acknowledgements; A Note on Geographical Terms; Chapter One Introduction: A Nubian Worshipper of Isis from the Second Century BC; Chapter Two Frontiers; Chapter Three The Beginnings: A-Group Lower Nubia and the Emerging Egyptian State (c. 3700 2800BC); Chapter Four Old Kingdom Domination and the Rebirth of the Native Polities (c. 2800 2160BC); Chapter Five Lower Nubia and First Intermediate Period Egypt (c. 2160 2055BC); Chapter Six Lower Nubia between Kerma and Middle Kingdom Egypt (c. 2055 1650BC) |
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Chapter Seven Kerma Domination in Lower Nubia in the Second Intermediate Period (c. 1650 1550BC)Chapter Eight Locating the Cultures of Lower Nubia in the Late Neolithic, Early and Middle Bronze Age: Some Preliminary Conclusions; Chapter Nine New Kingdom Egypt in Nubia (c. 1550 1069BC); Chapter Ten Religion and Society in New Kingdom Nubia; Chapter Eleven Nubians and Egyptians in New Kingdom Nubia: The Degrees of Egyptianization; Chapter Twelve A Long, Silent Interlude? Lower Nubia in the Third Intermediate Period (c. 1069 795BC) |
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Chapter Thirteen Lower Nubia under the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and the Napatan Kings (c. 795 332BC)Chapter Fourteen The Neighbour of Ptolemaic Egypt (c. 332 30BC); Chapter Fifteen Uniting Two Worlds: Lower Nubia in the Time of the Meroitic Viceroys (c. 30BC to the Middle of the AD Fourth Century); Chapter Sixteen Post-Meroitic Lower Nubia before the Advent of Christianity; Chapter Seventeen Epilogue. Three Ages of Lower Nubian Autonomy: The A-Group and C-Group Chiefdoms and the Kingdom of Noubadia; Abbreviations; Index of Names; Plates; Index of Places and Peoples; Index of Topics |
| Summary |
The Egyptological literature usually belittles or ignores the political and intellectual initiative and success of the Nubian Twenty-Fifth Dynasty in the reunification of Egypt, while students of Nubian history frequently ignore or misunderstand the impact of Egyptian ideas on the cultural developments in pre and post-Twenty-Fifth-Dynasty Nubia. This book re-assesses the textual and archaeological evidence concerning the interaction between Egypt and the polities emerging in Upper Nubia between the Late Neolithic period and 500 AD. The investigation is carried out, however, from the special vi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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HISTORY -- Ancient.
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International relations
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Grenzgebiet
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| SUBJECT |
Egypt -- History -- To 640 A.D.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041286
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Nubia -- History
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Egypt -- Relations -- Nubia
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Nubia -- Relations -- Egypt
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Africa -- Nubia
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Egypt
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Nubien
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Ägypten Altertum
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789047425298 |
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9047425294 |
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1282400576 |
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9781282400573 |
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9786612400575 |
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6612400579 |
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