Egypt

Amada Stela of Amenhotep II

Amenhotep II commemorates a Syrian campaign in which he personally executes seven captured princes, then hangs six bodies from the walls of Thebes and sends the seventh to Napata, using mutilated corpses as long-distance political signage to two frontiers at once.

Read the text

Commentary

Readers' notes on this work. No account needed - be scholarly, or at least civil.

Loading commentary…