Napata
Sign in to saveNapata (, ; ; and ) was a city of ancient Kush at the fourth cataract of the Nile founded by the Egyptian Amun cult for Egyptian pilgrims given by its, as suggested, Egyptian name. It is located approximately 1.5 kilometers from the east side of the river at the site of modern Karima, Sudan.
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Place details
- Locality
- الدهيسيرة
- Region
- الولاية الشمالية Northern State
- Country
- السودان
- Population
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- Country
- Sudan
- Located in
- Northern State
- Image
- Amun in Barkal.jpg
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Article
8 sectionsContents
- Early history
- Napatan period
- Assyrian invasion and end of the Twenty-fifth dynasty
- Late Napatan kingdom
- Archaeology of the site
- Cultural references
- References
- Further reading
Napata (, ; ; and ) was a city of ancient Kush at the fourth cataract of the Nile founded by the Egyptian Amun cult for Egyptian pilgrims given by its, as suggested, Egyptian name. It is located approximately 1.5 kilometers from the east side of the river at the site of modern Karima, Sudan.
Napata was the southernmost permanent settlement in the New Kingdom of Egypt (16th–11th centuries BC) and home to Jebel Barkal, the main Kushite cult centre of Amun. It was the sometime capital of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt and, after its fall in 663 BC, of the Kingdom of Kush. In 593 BC, it was sacked by the Egyptians and the Kushite capital was relocated to Meroë. Even after this move, Napata continued to be the kingdom's primary religious centre. The city was sacked a second time by the Romans in 23 BC but was rebuilt and continued as an important centre of the Amun cult.