Some Literary Aspects of the Kamose Inscriptions

Abstract

This paper discusses some features of the Kamose military narrative which relate to earlier Second Intermediate Period Theban royal texts, and to the Middle Egyptian literary corpus. It is suggested that the Kamose inscriptions mobilise various established Königsnovelle topoi, but also incorporate literary themes in some ways which do not seem to have been generally followed in royal inscriptions of the following Eighteenth Dynasty.