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The present doctoral dissertation proposes a comparative investigation of Egyptian and Kushite temples. The study corpus consists of one architectural type—the free-standing temple—that was dedicated to one deity. Amun, who played the most important role in both Egyptian and Kus…

The corpus of Napatan inscriptions studied here comprises the monumental royal texts written in Egyptian hieroglyphs which date from the end of Nubian domination of Egypt in the mid-seventh century B.C. to the reign of Nestasen in the second half of the fourth century B.C. The N…