The battle for the armor of Inaros
The fight for the armor of Inaros is the title of a demotic tale that relates to the events after the death of the novel hero Inaros regarding his armor .
Pami , son of Inaros and prince of Heliopolis , reports how he fought heroically and caused great losses to the army of Azarhaddon when the Assyrian ruler tried to conquer Egypt and killed Pharaoh Petubastis III. ( Assyrian Putubišti) to defeat.
This narrative is a historical location of the names of actual existing pharaohs in the time of Asarhaddon, when he initially unsuccessfully tried to find 674 BC. To subjugate Egypt. From Assyrian sources Bakennefi III. (Assyrian Bukunani'pi ) as Gaufürst in Kemwer , who was involved in the ancient Egyptian army in the fight against Asarhaddon.
This legend shows Greek-Hellenistic influences: The development of the battles, the divine predetermination of their outcome and the roles of the champions, as well as the description of the weapons, the clothing and the shield, are based on the schemes of the Iliad .
literature
- Friedhelm Hoffmann , Joachim Friedrich Quack : Anthology of demotic literature (= introductions and source texts on Egyptology. Volume 4). LIT, Berlin 2007, ISBN 3-8258-0762-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pierre Grimal (ed.): The Hellenism and the rise of Rome. (= Fischer Weltgeschichte vol. 6.) Frankfurt 1965, p. 225 f.