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Journal Article
THE REPORTS OF WARS IN MEROITIC AND AKSUMITE TEXTS
2021
Overview
The corpus of Meroitic inscriptions is divided into several categories, but only the royal inscriptions are characterized by narrations. Most translated words and clauses suggest that those narrations consist of descriptions of religious events or reports of wars. The typical report of war refers to the punishments the king inflicted on the captives: ‘slaughtering the men’‚ ‛enslaving the women’‚ ‛taking their (y) emoqe’‚ Often, these clauses are preceded by the ethnonym of the defeated enemies. The same phraseology is seen in Napatan texts, particularly in the inscriptions of the last Napatan kings, Anlamani, Amannote-erike, Harsiyotef and Nastasen, who are thought to have conducted military campaign against the Eastern and Southern regions of the kingdom of Kush in Nubia. Similarities can be found with some Aksumite royal texts. In RIÉ I 185 I e II, Ezana, after subjugating the enemies, deported the captives with their livestock and supplied them with goods and food before relocating them to a new place. The relocation of captives seems also to be a practice of some Meroitic kings as described in two Meroitic royal texts: the inscription of Akinidad, at Hamadab (REM1003) and the inscription of Kharamadoye, at Kalabsha (REM0094). The most interesting aspects include not only the similarities among the reports of wars in Meroitic and Aksumite royal texts but also the records of displacements of some populations under decree of the central power.
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Istituto per l'Oriente C. A. Nallino
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