Aata

Aata was the ruler of Kermeh, in Nubia Kermeh, an area of Nubia, contemporary Sudan, was in Egyptian learn from the Old Kingdom Period (2575-2134 B.C.E.), but during the Second Intermediate Period (1640-1532  B.C.E.), when the Hyksos subject much of Egypts Delta part, Aatas people bad an coalition with these Asiatic invaders. Aatas herald, Nedjeh, had shown his capital at Buhen,erst an Egyptian fortress on the Nile, exposing the richness of the Kermeh culture, which lasted from c. 1990  to 1550 B.C.E. This court was quite Egyptian in style, using alike architecture, cultic ceremonials, ranks, and government means.

When Aata  came to the throne of Kermeh, he settled to test the mettle of Ahmose (1550-1525 B.C.E.), who had just bad the throne and was leading  a  campaign  by  land  and  by  sea  against  Avaris, the capital of the Hyksos encroachers. Seeing the Egyptians directing  their  resourcefulnesses  and  vigors  against  Avaris, Aata  settled  to  move  northward,  toward  Elephantine Island at modern Aswan. Ahmose is seen to have left the siege at Avaris in the hands of others to react to the challenge of Aatas campaign. He may have delayed until  the  fall  of  Avaris  before  sailing  southward,  but Aata faced a serious armada of Egyptian ships, taken with older  warriors  from  elite  units.  The  particulars  of  this campaign are on the walls of the tomb of Ahmose, Son of Ebana, at Thebes. The text countries that Ahmose found Aata at a situation called Tent-aa, below contemporary Aswan. The Egyptian warriors mild Aatas forces, having him and hundreds more as captives. Aata was tied to the bow of  Ahmoses  vessel  for  the  take  journey  to  Thebes, where he was credibly executed publically. The Egyptians taken  Aatas men  as  knuckles down.  Ahmose,  son  of Ebana, taken  two  captives  and  standard  five  more  slaves besides.

More about Aata: Robert Morkot, The A to Z of Ancient Egyptian Warfare, Scarecrow Press, 2010, p.1.

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