By Francis Breyer
Francis Breyer's Punt. Die Suche nach dem ›Gottesland‹ covers each element relating Punt, this land identified merely from historic Egyptian assets. numerous disciplines have contributed to the dialogue on its localization: Egyptology, Nubien stories, Botany, Zoology, Anthropology, and African stories, between others. some of the disciplines' arguments are conscientiously studied, in particular with the historical past of study and the Zeitgeist in brain. For the first actual time, the query is requested, which archaeological tradition from the horn of Africa may be correlated to the knowledge from the textual and iconographic assets, all of that are accumulated, translated and commented on. Breyer not just comprehensively reconstructs the whole association of the Egyptian expeditions, i.e. contributors, routes, alternate items, but additionally addresses the folks of Punt, their cultural history and lifestyle.
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Herzog, Punt, (adaik 6) Glückstadt 1968, 7 f. Kitchen, Punt and how to get there. A. Mariette, Les Listes géographiques des pylones de Karnak comprenant la Palestine, l’ Éthiopie, le pay de Somal, Leipzig 1875, 60–66. 18 kapitel ii nach Punt zu beruhen. 49 Die Arbeit von Martinssen kann demgegenüber in vielfacher Hinsicht als mustergültig bezeichnet werden. Sie ist nicht nur die bisher ausführlichste philologische Bearbeitung der Quellen (die Texte werden erstmals alle in Übersetzung und Umschrift gegeben), sondern wird auch methodisch höchsten Standards gerecht.
Dynastie Asosi Alabastervase des 6. Dynastie Teti Teti Grab des Ḫwi͗ 6. Dynastie Pepi ii. 49 Meeks, Locating Punt, 53. w) 6. Dynastie Pepi ii. Asswān 9 Inschrift des Ḥn(n)w (Wādī Hammāmat 114) (Taf. 6) Wādī 11. Dynastie Hammāmat Jahr 8 Mentuhoteps iii. w) (Taf. w) (Taf. 10) Kalksteinfragment mit der Kartusche Sesostris i. (Taf. w (Taf. 12) Ankerschrein des ʿnḫw (Taf. 14) 12. Dynastie Jahr 28 Amenemhats ii. 12. Dynastie Jahr 1 Sesostris ii. 12. Dynastie Sesostris i. t, welcher bei der Vorbereitung einer Puntexpedition erschlagen worden war.
Aus dem Mittleren Reich sind nicht nur Expeditionsinschriften erhalten; literarische Texte enthalten ebenfalls wertvolle Hinweise zur Puntfrage. So erfahren wir von einer Verbindung zwischen Punt, einer Insel und einem Schlangennumen. a. t, Herrin von Punt, sowie alle Götter des Landes Ägypten und der Inseln des Meeres. Die Geschichte des Schiffbrüchigen (Dok. 27) hat die Odyssee eines Seefahrers zum Thema, der auf dem Roten Meer durch einen Sturm vom Kurs abkommt und Schiffbruch erleidet. Die Erzählung macht konkrete Angaben über die Maße des Schiffes (120 × 40 Ellen)86 und die Anzahl seiner Matrosen (120).