The Blemmyes I: The Rise
of the Blemmyes and the Roman Withdrawal from Nubia under
Diocletian
by Robert T. Updegraff,
Waltham, Mass.
Table of Contents
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| Introduction |
45 |
1. Previous Research on the Blemmyes |
46 |
2. Presentation of Material |
49 |
| I. Early Appearances of the Blemmyes |
49 |
1. Geographical and Historical Background
for the Study of the Blemmyes |
50 |
2. Earlier Inhabitants of Nubia |
52 |
3. The Blemmyes in Egyptian Texts |
55 |
4. References to the Blemmyes in Demotic
Texts |
57 |
5. Classical Authors on the Blemmyes |
62 |
6. Summary |
67 |
| II. The Rise of the Blemmyes to Power |
68 |
1. Blemmy Attacks against Roman Territory
|
68 |
a) Early Blemmy Raids into Egypt |
68 |
b) Diocletian and the Roman Withdrawal from
Nubia |
72 |
c) Noubae, Noubades, Nobatai, Nubians |
76 |
2. The Situation in the South |
79 |
a) The Historical Background of Lower Nubia,
300 B.C.-200 A.D. |
80 |
b) The Political and Social Situation in
Lower Nubia in the Third Century |
81 |
c) The Blemmyes and the Kingdom of Axum in
the Late Third Century |
83 |
d) The Blemmyes and the 'Fall' of Meroe |
87 |
e) Factors in the Blemmyes' Rise to Power
|
88 |
3. Summary |
90 |
| Appendix |
90 |
| A. Stele of Anlamani; MACADAM, Kawa I, Plate 16 (note lines
16-21) |
91 |
| B. Procopius' report of Diocletian's withdrawal of Roman forces
from Lower Nubia: De Bello Persico I, 19 |
92 |
| Selected Bibliography |
92 |
| Additional Remarks by L. TÖRÖK, Budapest |
97 |
