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- Title
The First Millennium bc: Temple Enclosure or Urban Citadel?
- Authors
Barry Kemp
- Abstract
The first millennium bc brought warfare to the interior of Egypt on a significant scale. We have two vivid records, one written and the other pictorial. The former is a first-person narrative of the Napatan (Sudanese) king Piankhy who, having gained control of the south of Egypt, embarked in 730 bc on a methodical subjugation of the rest of the country, then under the rule of several local families. During the seemingly irresistible northward progress of his army Piankhy makes frequent reference to walls with battlements and gates which could be countered with siege towers/battering rams and the erection of earthen ramps, although Piankhy himself preferred the tactic of direct storming. Within the circuit of these walls lay treasuries and granaries and, in the case of the city of Hermopolis in Middle Egypt, the palace of the local king Nemlut together with its stables for horses.
- Subjects
EGYPT; SUDANESE; WALLS; RAMPS (Walkways); STABLES; EGYPTIAN history
- Publication
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2004, Vol 14, Issue 2, p271
- ISSN
0959-7743
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0959774304240161