INVESTIGADORES
PFOH Emanuel Oreste
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Prestige and Authority in the Southern Levant during the Amarna Age
Autor/es:
EMANUEL PFOH
Lugar:
Varsovia
Reunión:
Congreso; 60th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale «Fortune and Misfortune in the Ancient Near East», Warsaw 21st-25th July 2014; 2014
Institución organizadora:
Association Internationale Assyriologique / University of Warsaw
Resumen:
During the Late Bronze Age (ca. 1550-1200 BCE) the whole region of Syria-Palestine was under a virtually permanent foreign presence?mostly Egyptian and Hittite?ruling over the local petty kingdoms and principalities. The political scene of the Syro-Palestinian petty kings, especially reflected in the Amarna correspondence (14th cent. BCE), was conditioned by their personal subordination to the Egyptian and the Hittite power. Accordingly, the political manoeuvrability of these ?kings? was essentially limited to a context and situations where personal ability in the ?local game? between peers was the main political capital; a game of accusations of treason and competition to prevail and be the most loyal subject to the foreign overlord (especially in regard to the Palestinian kinglets and the Egyptian Pharaoh). As a matter of fact, the small kings of the Southern Levant did not exert an absolute power within society. On the contrary, their authority seemed to be quite fragile and often challenged by other social elements and political players, both external and internal. In this paper, a characterization of the Syro-Palestinian socio-political structure is offered, sketching the nature and the dynamics of power in local society.