Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> You seem to be confusing the 22nd through 24th
> dynasties of the third intermediate period with
> the Ptolemies who came much later.
> The Nubian pharaohs definitely considered
> themselves a 'native dynasty' whatever that may
> mean, and restorers of Maat. Culturally they were
> as Egyptian as any northerner.

Thanks for your reply Roxana. Thank you! I was absolutely confusing
dynasties. I’m curious to learn about any cultural
/societal impact the third intermediate era’s ending may
have had on Egyptian nomarchies.

I personally ascribe to Ziko Goneim’s theory of
concerning a chronology of matrilineal hereditary
chieftainesses. His theory posits that 25th dynasty’s matrilineal
chieftainesses were direct descendants of those of the
21st dynasty.
That the city state of Napata’s
inception was equally as revolutionary as that of Akhetaten and
perhaps born of a sibling conception.
Goneim proposed that Upper Egyptian colonialists were amongst
the principal architects of Napata’s foundation, which arose centuries
earlier than the immersion of the 25th dynasty. He theorized that
spiritual-societal underpinnings of Napata were constructed during the 18th dynasty..
Goneim was of the belief that Napata was the physical station of several generations of
Kings’ sons of Kush, which were essentially hereditary delegates of Egyptian extraction
- many being the products of diplomatic marriage between hereditary lineages representative
of distinct population centers- be that sepats, clans, tribes or vassal kingdoms.



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