Medjay (also Medjai, Mazoi, Madjai, Mejay, Egyptian mḏꜣ.j, a nisba of mḏꜣ[1]) was a demonym used in various ways throughout ancient Egyptian history to refer initially to a nomadic group from Nubia and later as a generic term for desert-ranger police.[2]
^Erman, Adolf; Grapow, Hermann (1926–1961). Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache. Vol. 2. p. 186.
^Liszka, Kate (2011). ""We have come from the well of Ibhet": Ethnogenesis of the Medjay". Journal of Egyptian History. 4 (2): 149–171. doi:10.1163/187416611X612132.
Medjay (also Medjai, Mazoi, Madjai, Mejay, Egyptian mḏꜣ.j, a nisba of mḏꜣ) was a demonym used in various ways throughout ancient Egyptian history to refer...
are another Cushitic speaking tribe, or more likely a subdivision of the Medjay/Beja people, which is attested in Napatan and Egyptian texts from the 6th...
ensuring the security and welfare of the Egyptian people as the last of the Medjay, a title he inherited from his father. In Origins, Bayek fights against...
Hills as far back as the Early Holocene. Based on onomastic evidence, the Medjay and the Blemmyes of northern Nubia are believed to have spoken Cushitic...
and Ta Nehesi or Ta Seti by Ancient Egyptians named for the Nubian and Medjay archers or bowmen. Since 2011, Sudan is also sometimes referred to as North...
the New Kingdom period, an elite desert-ranger police force called the Medjay was used to protect valuable areas, especially areas of pharaonic interest...
1917 and Persia in 1906 and again in 1953. Mesedi, in the Hittite Empire Medjay, since the old kingdom of Egypt until the Ptolemaic dynasty Somatophylakes...
police force, to prevent their fellow Medjay tribespeople from further attacking Egyptian assets in the region. The Medjay were often used to protect valuable...
cultural group, "the pan-grave people". They have been identified with the Medjay of written sources. Sites related to them have been found at Khor Arba'at...
Babylonia, curaca in the Inca Empire, vigiles in the Roman Empire, and Medjay in ancient Egypt. Who law enforcers were and reported to depended on the...
battles. A long established foreign corps in the Egyptian forces were the Medjay—a generic term given to tribal scouts and light infantry recruited from...
of the local Medjay natives, some of which survive, revealing how tightly the Egyptians intended to control the southern border. Medjay were not allowed...
Cushitic) languages were spoken by other peoples in Lower Nubia (such as the Medjay and the C-Group culture) living in Nubian regions north of Saï toward Egypt...
Cushitic) languages were spoken by other peoples in Lower Nubia (such as the Medjay and the C-Group culture) living in Nubian regions north of Saï toward Egypt...
confederation based in Thinis that constituted the Upper Egypt Kingdom. Medjay pre 23rd century-11th century BC Confederation of nomadic peoples in Ancient...
[citation needed] Foreigners were also incorporated into the army, Nubians (Medjay), entered Egyptian armies as mercenaries and formed the best archery units...
set in Ancient Egypt near the end of the Ptolemaic period and follows a Medjay named Bayek, and explores the origins of the centuries-long conflict between...
officer; and third class, those taken by a common soldier. Publican Hippeus Medjay Cornell (1995) 94, 102 Livy I.36 Polybius Livy I.43 Cornell (1995) 193 Cornell...
Jerusalem, which required the pharaoh to intervene in the area by dispatching Medjay troops northwards. Akhenaten pointedly refused to save his vassal Rib-Hadda...
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