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Queenship in Kush

Status, Role and Ideology of Royal Women

Bibliographic Data

ID9343129
AuthorsAngelika Lohwasser (0000-0002-7090-7463, corresponding author)
Year2001
Volume38
Pages61-61
Publication date2001-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the American Research Center in Egypt (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0065-9991 • E-ISSN: 2330-1880
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/40000552
OpenAlexW4233436429
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited7

In the ancient Mediterranean world, the ex ceptional status of queens in the Kingdom of Meroe inspired comment in the works of Greco Roman writers.These women, and the kandake in particular, continued to attract the attention of travelers and scholars down into modern times.By comparison, the role and status of their predecessors, the royal mothers, wives, sisters, and daughters, from the Kushite 25th Dynasty down through the Napatan Period to the reign of Nastasen, remained little known. 1 Beginning with George A. Reisner's excava tions of the royal cemeteries at El Kurru and Nuri and Francis LI.Griffith's work at Kawa, a steadily increasing body of material has become available for the study of Kushite "queenship."These sources fall into three categories

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Unique citing works10
Citations per year0.71
Citation span2012 - 2023 (12)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 10

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