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Tables of Contents for The Twilight of Ancient Egypt
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Translator's Note
ix
Introduction
xi
The Dualistic Vision of the World and the Paradox of Ancient Egypt's History
Dualistic Concepts
1
5
The Uniting of the Two Lands
6
8
Egypt's Imperialistic Era: The New Kingdom
14
3
The Decline of the New Kingdom
17
5
The Report of Wenamun
22
5
Amun's Two Capitals: Thebes and Tanis (Dynasties 21-24)
Dynasty 21
27
8
Mummy Caches
35
5
Tanis and Israel
40
1
Dynasty 22
41
3
Shoshenq I's Campaign to Israel
44
2
The Bubastid Portal of Osorkon II
46
1
Domestic Policy
47
4
The Chronicle of Prince Osorkon
51
5
Political Fragmentation and Threat from Abroad
56
2
Discovery of the Serapeum
58
6
Preserved Temple Structures
64
4
Fresh Currents from the African Interior: Kushites in Egypt (Dynasty 25)
Nubia
68
5
Piye's Campaign to Egypt
73
12
Piye's Successors
85
4
Shabaka's Piety
89
2
The ``Kushite Cap''
91
2
The Reign of Taharqa
93
12
Assyrians in Egypt
105
5
The Saite Renaissance (Dynasty 26)
Psammetichus I
110
7
Artistic Developments
117
2
Psammetichus II
119
3
Herodotus on Saite Kings
122
5
Archaeology and the Saite Period
127
3
Thebes in the Saite Period
130
1
The End of the Dynasty
131
1
Challenges to Art Historians
132
3
Persians and Greeks on the Throne of the Pharaohs (Dynasty 27-Ptolemaic Period)
Cambyses and Darius
135
2
The Temple of Hibis
137
7
The Naos from Tuna el-Gebel
144
2
The Statue of Darius from Susa
146
10
Foreigners in Egypt
156
2
Struggles for Independence
158
1
Ritual Confirmation of Royal Power
159
3
The Final Decades of Independence
162
7
The Art and Architecture of Dynasty 30
169
8
The Second Persian Occupation
177
1
Alexander's Conquest
178
1
The Ptolemaic Dynasty
179
6
The Divine ``Lords of the Two Lands'': The Last Thousand Years of Pharaonic Egypt; Polish Archaeology on the Nile
The Tombs of Alexander
185
3
Egypt and Rome
188
3
Polish Archaeology in Egypt
191
4
Athribis
195
5
Artisans' Workshops
200
2
A Public Bath
202
1
A Private Bath
203
1
The Cultic Aspect of Baths
204
3
Political Symbolism
207
5
Bibliography
212
7
Comparative Chronology
219
6
Index
225