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Taharka's scaAmw found in Palmyra 

Transactions of the Society of Biblical Archæology, Volumes 7-8 pg 208

 

^^^ This scaAmw was made by Syrian artist not Egyptian artist as the author has pointed out. This leaves white historians scratching their heads on how to explain this.

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"On the walls here we see Taharqa's mother, Aqleq (abar), and a priest performing ceremonies connected with the enthronement of her son, who appears under the form of Tetun(Dedun), Sept(Soped), Amen(Sobek), and Heru,  thereby signifying that he is lord of the four quarters of the world. Next, a high priestly official called Heru-em-heb, makes an address to the people in words which express their acceptance of Taharqa as king before Amen-Ra. Elsewhere, standing on one side of a sacred tree which grows out of the funeral coffer of Osiris, is queen Aqleq, holding a bow in her hands, and shooting arrows into the symbols of the four quarters of the world; on the other side of the tree is Taharqa dancing, and hurling stones with his left hand into the four quarters of the world. In his right hand he holds the Sudani club. It will be remembered that Piankhi tells us in his great stele that his slingers hurled stones into the city which he besieged, and from the scene described above it seems as if Taharqa was proud to be regarded as a "slinger of stones." The text which refers to the shooting of arrows by the queen reads: "the divine wife hath grasped the bow; she hath shot arrows into the South, the North, the West, and the East. Against the enemies whom (Amen) hath given to him."" pg 41 The Egyptian Sûdân: Its History and Monuments, Volume 2
By Sir Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge

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Taharka and his mother slinging stones and arrows into the four quarters of the world

 

 

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Taharka was reported to have came with a mighty army and crossed the aAmwian desert to fight Assyrians.

ὀλίγου δὲ χρόνου διελθόντος καὶ ὁ τῶν Ἀσσυρίων βασιλεὺς διαμαρτὼν τῆς ἐπὶ τοὺς Αἰγυπτίους ἐπιβολῆς ἄπρακτος ἀνεχώρησεν ἐπ' οἴκου δι' αἰτίαν τοιαύτην: πολὺς αὐτῷ χρόνος ἐτρίβετο πρὸς τὴν Πηλουσίου πολιορκίαν, καὶ τῶν χωμάτων ἤδη μετεώρων ὄντων, ἃ πρὸς τοῖς τείχεσιν ἤγειρε, καὶ ὅσον οὔπω μέλλοντος προσβαλεῖν αὐτοῖς, ἀκούει τὸν τῶν Αἰθιόπων βασιλέα Θαρσικὴν πολλὴν ἄγοντα δύναμιν ἐπὶ συμμαχίᾳ τοῖς Αἰγυπτίοις ἥκειν διεγνωκότα ποιήσασθαι τὴν πορείαν διὰ τῆς ἐρήμου καὶ ἐξαίφνης εἰς τὴν τῶν Ἀσσυρίων ἐμβαλεῖν. ταραχθεὶς οὖν ὑπὸ τούτων ὁ βασιλεὺς Σεναχείριμος ἐΠὶ τὸν ἱερέα τὸν Ἡφαίστου στρατεῦσαι ἔλεγεν ὡς Οὗτος ὁ βασιλεὺς ἐπὶ τὸν τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ἔλθοι βασιλέα ἱερέα ὄντα τοῦ Ἡφαίστου, πολιορκῶν δὲ τὸ Πηλούσιον ἔλυσε τὴν πολιορκίαν ἐξ αἰτίας τοιαύτης: ηὔξατο ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Αἰγυπτίων τῷ θεῷ, ᾧ γενόμενος ἐπήκοος ὁ θεὸς πληγὴν ἐνσκήπτει τῷ Ἄραβι:

But after a little while the king of Assyria, when he had failed of his treacherous designs against the Egyptians, returned home without success, on the following occasion: He spent a long time in the siege of Pelusium; and when the banks that he had raised over against the walls were of a great height, and when he was ready to make an immediate assault upon them, but heard that Tirhaka, king of the Ethiopians, was coming and bringing great forces to aid the Egyptians, and was resolved to march through the desert (aAmwia), and so to fall directly upon the Assyrians, this king Sennacherib was disturbed at the news, and, as I said before, left Pelusium, and returned back without success.

Josephus antiquities book x chapter 1 paragraph 4

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John Gillies a noted historian mentions the extent Taharka's conquests.

"A prince called Tirhakoh in scripture, Tearcho and Taracho by the greeks had during the disaster of Egypt, been making great conquests in Ethiopia on both sides of the red sea. Availing himself of the caravan roads, through the broad continent of Kmt, he had pursued his victorious career to the shores of the Atlantic, and northwards to the Pillars of Hercules.(Spain) Many nomadic nations of Ethiopia and aAmwia had united under his wide spreading dominion; and he had already performed more extensive and more difficult journeys, than the march which report now ascribed to him, of penetrating through the desert which joins the two cultivated regions of aAmwia, Sabea, and Omanum, and then proceeding from the latter, along the western shore of the Persian gulf, into the rich Babylonian plain, and to its capital Nineveh, the proud Centre of Assyrian power." Pg 122

He also mentions the fall of this Ethiopian empire.

"Tarako the great Ethiopian whose name had been terrible in those western countries (eureurasia), was no more; and his resistless nomadic followers, with loss of their general and paymaster, lost also their union and discipline, and fell asunder with rapidity greater than that with which they had been assembled."pg 126

The history of the world from the reign of Alexander to that of Augustus

By John Gillies

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Taharka list the nations that he had conquered. 

 

   

Top row Number 4 Mesopotamia (Naharaina),  Number 7 Lebanon (Khati), Number 8 Aratu (Aradus), and Number 9 Assyria (Assur),