The Inscription of Queen Katimala at Semna : Textual Evidence for the Origins of the Napatan State (Yale Egyptological Studies)

Darnell, John Coleman

Yale Egyptological Institute（2006/12発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 126 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780974002538
• DDC分類 939.78

Full Description

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.

Contents

Editor's Preface

Preface

List of Illustrations

Introduction - Katimala's Tableau of Semna

The Scene and Annotations

The Main Inscription

Dating the Inscription - Palaeography and Grammar

Literary Form and a Theory of Kingship

An Essay at Historical Interpretation

The Main Inscription - Continuous Transliteration and Translation

Bibliography

Glossary

Grammatical index

Index

Plates