Bound Nubian Prisoner

The ancient Egyptians thought of their country as the center of the ordered universe. They saw foreigners as emanations of chaos that had to be controlled or even annihilated. Since the Egyptians believed that images of things might be magically equated with the things themselves, ritually damaging and burying representations of bound foreigners (here a man from Nubia, a neighboring culture) was meant to guarantee dominion over potential enemies and control over external threats to order.