Contextualizing the Crushing Victory: Booty of War in the New Kingdom Military Sources

Document Type : Original Article

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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.

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