Helmets and Body Armour in New Kingdom Egypt

Alberto Maria Pollastrini (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-32348-3 (ISBN)

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This book examines the dynamics around the introduction and spread of helmets and body armour throughout Egypt during the 18th, 19th and 20th Dynasties. It argues that the word 'introduction' is the best term to define this phenomenon because these types of military equipment were not in fact Egyptian technological innovations, but initially appeared at the end of the Bronze Age following the Hurrian expansion in the Middle East before being dispersed throughout the surrounding territories.

The analysis focuses particularly on a survey of iconographic, archaeological and lexicographic attestations from a wide range of surviving material evidence and literary sources. On the basis of the collated data, it provides as accurate a perspective as possible on how the helmet and the cuirass were introduced and propagated, their impact on warfare and their possible role in ideology across the chronological span of the New Kingdom. Pollastrini also draws productive comparisons between the Egyptian data and contemporary attestations from the Middle East and the Aegean region in order to underpin the 'international' dynamics at play. In doing so it both encourages a broader ancient-historical perspective that sets New Kingdom Egypt within its contemporary context, and sheds new light on developments in the military history and warfare of the period.

Alberto Maria Pollastrini is a member of the Research Unit AOROC – Archaeology & Philology of the East and West at Paris Sciences and Letters University, France. He specializes in Egyptian and Western Asiatic warfare and hoplology, in particular from the New Kingdom and Late Period.

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Reception and Diffusion of Personal Protections during the 18th Dynasty
2. Personal Protective Equipment during the Ramesside Period
3. The Manufacture of Protective Gear in New Kingdom Egypt
4. Egyptian Terminology Related to Protective Gear

Conclusions

Appendix I: Helmests as Depicted in Egyptian Art during the 18th Dynasty
Appendix II: Helmets as Depicted in Egyptian Art during the Ramesside Period
Appendix III: Corslets as Depicted in Egyptian Art during the New Kingdom

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	04.07.2024
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Egyptology
Zusatzinfo	40 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-350-32348-9 / 1350323489
ISBN-13	978-1-350-32348-3 / 9781350323483
Zustand	Neuware