Qualla: Soleb https://qualla.com/soleb en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/t/s/soleb-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Soleb https://qualla.com/soleb Soleb: Introduction https://qualla.com/soleb/ Photo credit Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0. On one of the columns in the hypostyle hall at Soleb, an Egyptian scribe around 1370 BCE carved three hieroglyphs that read, in transcription, ta shasu Yhwa - the land of the Shasu, those of Yhwa. The phrase became one of the most argued-over inscriptions in Egyptology. Some scholars, noting the resemblance of Yhwa to Yahweh, have suggested this is the earliest known reference to the Israelite god. Others consider the evidence too scanty. What is not in dispute is the temple itself: Soleb was the southernmost monumental temple Amenhotep III ever built, and its decorated columns were once covered with lists of all the peoples Egypt claimed to have conquered.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/t/s/soleb-wp/sets-soleb-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Soleb: The Southernmost Temple https://qualla.com/soleb/ Photo credit Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884), Public domain. Soleb lies on the western bank of the Nile, north of the Third Cataract, in what is now Sudan. The German Egyptologist Karl Richard Lepsius first described the ruins scientifically in 1844, but his description rested on ground that had been visited for centuries before - the Ital...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/t/s/soleb-wp/sets-soleb-the-southernmost-temple.mp3 0:06 2 full Soleb: When the Gods Changed https://qualla.com/soleb/ Photo credit Clemens Schmillen, CC BY-SA 4.0. The story of Soleb is the story of Egyptian religion changing, mid-construction. Amenhotep III's son, Amenhotep IV, was initially shown at the temple worshipping his father alongside Amun. Then he changed his name to Akhenaten and launched one of the most radical religious revolu...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/t/s/soleb-wp/sets-soleb-when-the-gods-changed.mp3 0:06 3 full Soleb: The Prisoner Lists https://qualla.com/soleb/ Photo credit Hans Birger Nilsen, CC BY-SA 2.0. On the columns of the hypostyle hall, Amenhotep III's scribes carved lists of foreign peoples that Egypt claimed to have conquered. Three lists are preserved. Each shows a figure of a prisoner with his arms bound, carrying a shield inscribed with the name of his town or people. H...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/e/t/s/soleb-wp/sets-soleb-the-prisoner-lists.mp3 0:06 4 full Soleb: A Name in the Column https://qualla.com/soleb/ Photo credit Karl Richard Lepsius (1810–1884), Public domain. Among those Shasu names - ta shasu Trbr, ta shasu Smt - sits the contested ta shasu Yhwa. Thomas Schneider vocalizes the name as Yahwa. Fleming places the community in Palestine or Syria. Kennedy argues it logically follows that the Shasu of Yhwa might be identified with the Isra...

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