What is in a Title? On Rulers and Rulership in the Second Stela of Kamose (K2)

FLAMMINI, ROXANA

Florencia

Congreso; XI International Congress of Egyptologists; 2015

International Association of Egyptologists

The Second Stela of Kamose (K2) is the best preserved source which recounts the Egyptian point of view on the late Second Intermediate Period. Its narrative fits well into the historical situation of the time, which is also able to be partially reconstructed through material remains and other kind of evidence. Political fragmentation, cultural regionalism and the existence of ruling elites, each one with their own particular and distinctive identity, can be proposed as the hallmarks of the period. Inter alia, K2 reveals the way the Theban ruler affronted the foreign rule of part of the Egyptian territory. In this presentation, I shall refer to the different titles addressed to the rulers mentioned in the inscription, as a form of detecting possible ways of establishing real or alleged asymmetrical relationships.