The Order of the Kushite Kings According to Sources from the Eastern Desert and Thebes. Or

Shabataka was here first

Bibliographic Data

ID12955794
AuthorsClaus Jurman (University of Birmingham, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume10
Issue2
Pages124-151
Publication date2017-11-17
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Egyptian History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1874-1657 • E-ISSN: 1874-1665
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/18741665-12340037
OpenAlexW2775688870
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

The correct order of the first two kings of the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty has been the subject of a growing debate since Michael Bányai proposed a revision of the traditional chronological model in 2013. By placing Shabataka1 before Shabaka Bányai challenged the commonly accepted view according to which it was Shabaka who established the Twenty-Fifth Dynasty and secured Kushite control over all of Egypt after having re-conquered the North and disposed of his adversary Bocchoris of the Twenty-Fourth Dynasty. Since then Bányai’s proposal of modifying the sequence of the Kushite kings, thus making Shabataka Bocchoris’ opponent, has received a growing number of supporters who have brought forward additional arguments in favour of it. The present article introduces new arguments based on a careful analysis of prosopographic, archaeological, and epigraphic data from the Eastern Desert and Thebes—especially relating to the Kushite Nile Level Records at Karnak—which provide the strongest evidence for the sequence “Shabaka—Shabataka” hitherto adduced

Adversary · Ancient history · Desert (philosophy · Epistemology · Order (exchange · Sequence (biology · Subject (documents · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Computer Science · History · Philosophy

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