Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
List of Tables
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Terminology, Chronology, Orthography, and Maps
I. Introduction
II. Meroë as a Problem of Twenty-Fifth Dynasty History
III. The Invention of Tradition in the Dongola-Napata Reach
IV. The Internal Frontier: Lower Nubia, the Batn el-Hagar, and the Abri-Delgo Reach
V. The City as State: Thebes and the Double Kingdom
VI. “El Fiel de la Balanza”: Aristocracy and Institution in Middle Egypt
VII. Taharqo in Lower Egypt: Saïte Rebellion, Kushite Hegemony, or Pax Napatana?
VIII. Conclusion
Bibliography

About the Author

Jeremy Pope, Ph.D. (2010), Johns Hopkins University, is Assistant Professor in the Lyon Gardiner Tyler Department of History at The College of William and Mary. He has excavated at Karnak in Egypt, as well as at Gebel Barkal in Sudan.