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The Inscription of Queen Katimala at Semna: Textual Evidence for the Origins of the Napatan State

The Inscription of Queen Katimala at Semna: Textual Evidence for the Origins of the Napatan State

Darnell, John Coleman

Paperback

Series: Yale Egyptological Studies, Book 7

Ancient Egypt

ISBN10: 0974002534
ISBN13: 9780974002538
Publisher: Yale Egyptology
Published: Mar 1 2006
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.35 Width: 8.44 Depth: 10.98
Language: English
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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