Scharuhe

Scharuhe in hieroglyphics
	Tell el-Fārʿah (South)

In ancient times, Sharuhe was the name of a town in Retjenu . It was located on the present state of Israel about 20 kilometers west of Beersheba .

history

At the beginning of the ancient Egyptian 18th dynasty , when Ahmose I continued the expulsion of the Hyksos begun by Kamose , Sharuhe played a special strategic role.

In the second peret month (February) Ahmose I took 1532 BC. In his 18th year of reign, the eleventh year of the reign of Hykso King Chamudi , he conquered the ancient Egyptian city of Heliopolis and a short time later on 25 Achet I (September 17th) conquered the border fortress of Sile .

After the successful capture of Sile and Auaris, there followed a three-year siege of the fortress city of Sharuhe, which Ahmose I. 1529/28 BC. Finally captured in his 21st year of reign. The siege of Sharuhe is recorded in column 15 of the biography of Ahmose, son of Ibana , in his rock tomb in el-Kab .

literature

Hermann A. Schlögl : Ancient Egypt. 3rd edition, Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-48005-8 , p. 189.

Individual evidence

↑ Othmar Keel, Max Küchler, Christoph Uehlinger: Places and landscapes of the Bible . A handbook and study guide to the Holy Land . tape 2 : The south . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1982, ISBN 3-525-50167-6 , Tell Adschul / Scharätze , p. 97 ( online [accessed March 15, 2015]).
↑ Kurt Sethe : The duration of the siege of Sharuhe by King Amosis . In: Journal for Egyptian Language and Archeology (ZÄS) . tape 42 , 1905, pp. 136 ( online [accessed February 18, 2014]).
↑ Kurt Sethe: Documents of the 18th Dynasty . Historical-biographical documents from the times of the Hyksos distributors and their first successors . Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1905, The life story of Admiral Ahmose , p. 4 , col. 14 ( online [accessed March 15, 2015]).

31.281944 34.4825Coordinates: 31 ° 16 ′ 55 ″ N , 34 ° 28 ′ 57 ″ E

[1] Othmar Keel, Max Küchler, Christoph Uehlinger: Places and landscapes of the Bible . A handbook and study guide to the Holy Land . tape 2 : The south . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1982, ISBN 3-525-50167-6 , Tell Adschul / Scharätze , p. 97 ( online [accessed March 15, 2015]).

[2] Kurt Sethe : The duration of the siege of Sharuhe by King Amosis . In: Journal for Egyptian Language and Archeology (ZÄS) . tape 42 , 1905, pp. 136 ( online [accessed February 18, 2014]).

[3] Kurt Sethe: Documents of the 18th Dynasty . Historical-biographical documents from the times of the Hyksos distributors and their first successors . Hinrichs'sche Buchhandlung, Leipzig 1905, The life story of Admiral Ahmose , p. 4 , col. 14 ( online [accessed March 15, 2015]).