Contextualizing the Crushing Victory: Booty of War in the New Kingdom Military Sources | ||
| International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management | ||
| Article 1, Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2018, Pages 8-22 PDF (625.33 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijthm.2018.28997 | ||
| Author | ||
| Ahmad Abo el Magd | ||
| Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Minia University, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| This study investigates the booty of war as one of the main features of the both Egyptian textual and iconographic sources that describe the New Kingdom military confrontations that ranged from minor clashes to Ancient World Wars among the great Powers of Ancient Near East. The concern of the present article is to focus on the way the king expressed and perpetuated his victory over the other entities of the ancient Near East, Libya and Nubia when he ended the description of his wars by giving a detailed account, either by texts or images, of objects that he captured in the battlefield or the assaults and causalities that followed his victory over the enemies and the plunder list that giving a statistical details about such items. The present article represents an introduction of a series of articles that focus on the detailed description of such items of the booty of war. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Booty of War; Plunder List; Military Sources; New Kingdom | ||
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