From Slave to Pharaoh: The Black Experience of Ancient Egypt

List of Illustrations

ILLUSTRATIONS vii MAPS 1. Nubia, Kush, and Sudan 2 2. Regimes and transit corridors in northeast Africa, c. 2300–1700 B.C. 25 3. Middle and Lower Egypt at the end of the eighth century B.C. 73 4. The northeastern Nile Delta in antiquity 141 FIGURES 1. Anatolian blondes and Nubian blacks 6 2. Upper-class Nubian gentry 7 3. Brutalizing a captive Nubian 9 4. Elephantine and the First Cataract region 14 5a. Staircase approach and facades of Old Kingdom tombs at Qubbet el-Hawa 15 5b. Outcrops of granite, First Cataract 16 5c. Scene of the mortuary meal in the tomb of the mayor of Elephantine , Nubkhaure-nakht (Sirenpowet II) 16 6. Inscriptions on the rocks of the island of Siheil, First Cataract 17 7. Ramesses II charges into a throng of _eeing Nubians 23 8. Wrestling training and siege warfare 30 9. Nubians bringing tribute to Pharaoh 40 10. Viceroy of Kush 42 11a. Nubians adoring Akhenaten at the jubilee 45 11b. A Nubian in Akhenaten’s bodyguard 46 11c. Nubian and Canaanite captives in submission to Akhenaten 46 12. Granite lion from Gebel Barkal 47 13. Facade of the great rock-cut temple of Ramesses II at Abu Simbel 48 14. Facade of the lesser rock-cut temple, dedicated to Nofretari, queen of Ramesses II, at Abu Simbel 48 15. Libyan tribesmen 62 16. Osorkon III and his daughter Shepenwepet worship Amun, Reharakhte , and Ptah
68 17. The Levantine coast, south of Ashkelon 84 18. Shabaka (Sabaco) 87 19. Taharqa, enthroned 88 20. Shebitku worships Amun with his daughter 94 21. Taharqa 96 22. Trial piece with king’s head 104 23. Amunirdis I worships Amun 112 24. Shepenwepet I before Montu and Harendotes 113 25. Karnak and environs 118 26. View along the axis of Karnak from the east 121 27. Domestic structures of Twenty-~fth Dynasty date 122 28. Domestic architecture 123 29. Domestic structures 124 30. Plan of a typical villa 125 31. Casemate foundations to support multistoried tower 126 32. Soclelike shower stall with drain 127 33a. Gold ring 129 33b. Feline goddess holding lotus 129 33c. Terracotta animal images 130 34. Reconstruction of a kiln 131 35. Plan of Temple C 133 36a. Excavations of Temple C 134 36b. Remains of crypt, Temple C 134 36c. Head of Divine Worshiper, Temple C 135 36d. Recumbent lion from the dromos, Temple C 135 36e. Feathers of Amun-re, Temple C 136 36f. Fragment of scene of induction ceremony, Temple C 136 37. Reconstruction of the putative facade of Temple C 137 38. Fragment of a cippos from the sanatorium, Temple C 138 viii ILLUSTRATIONS ...