Non-royal Nubian Clothing Representations during the New Kingdom and the Kushites Twenty-Fifth Dynasty | ||
| International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Management | ||
| Article 3, Volume 1, Issue 1, June 2018, Pages 56-76 PDF (1.03 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ijthm.2018.29000 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Ahmed Ebied1; Tamer Fahim2 | ||
| 1Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, South Valley University - Luxor Branch, Egypt | ||
| 2Faculty of Tourism and Hotels, Fayoum University, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| There are interconnections between Egypt and Nubia since the Predynastic Period. The non-royal Nubians- as soldiers, servants, officials- were represented in the art of the New Kingdom in various artistic media. In c.750 BC the Kushites succeeded in invading Egypt and founding the Twenty-fifth Dynasty (c.750-664 BC). The non-royal Kushites adapted traditional non-royal Egyptian clothing and added some new elements to it. The authors here introduce a comparative study between the clothing of these non-royal individuals in the New Kingdom and Kushites Twenty-Fifth Dynasty in art. The New Kingdom art introduces Nubians wearing Egyptian clothing with remarkable Nubian features, while the Twenty-fifth Dynasty art represents Kushites wearing all Egyptian clothing from the Old, Middle and New Kingdoms as a kind of revivalism and adapting some Kushites elements; that misleads scholars to identify this new trend. The authors conclude that New Kingdom Egyptian artists in all representations marked non-royal Nubians with their own clothing, some of these Nubian clothing continued to be utilized by non-royal Kushites to keep their ethnic identity. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Clothing; Kushites Twenty-Fifth Dynasty; New Kingdom; Non-royal Nubians; Non-royal Kushites | ||
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