Pays de Pount

Le pays de Pount, également appelé Ta Nétjer qui signifie « pays du dieu », est un site d'échanges et de négoces qui apparaît dans les récits de l'Égypte antique, dont la localisation est encore incertaine. La majorité des auteurs situe aujourd'hui le site sur la côte africaine de la mer Rouge^[1], allant des confins érythréo-soudanais au nord de l'actuelle Somalie. D'autres plus rares ont proposé une localisation de part et d'autre de la mer Rouge incluant le Sud de la péninsule arabique, ou encore le Levant.

↑ extrait d'un texte de Jacke Phillips (voir bibliographie) :

« … no archaeological remains have ever been identified, even tentatively as 'Puntite'. Punt exists, for us, only in the Egyptian records; even the name we use is taken directly from the Egyptian name PWNT. These sources have given us a general idea of where Punt was located, what it was like, and the period of its existence (generally, c. 2500 to ?600 B.C.) … Punt has never been identified with certainty. The textual records that have survived, when their information is pooled, provide us with enough information to suggest strongly a generalized area within the eastern coastal regions of the modern Sudan south of modern Port Sudan, Eritrea and northern-most Ethiopia, or somewhere further inland … »

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[1] xtrait d'un texte de Jacke Phillips (voir bibliographie) :

« … no archaeological remains have ever been identified, even tentatively as 'Puntite'. Punt exists, for us, only in the Egyptian records; even the name we use is taken directly from the Egyptian name PWNT. These sources have given us a general idea of where Punt was located, what it was like, and the period of its existence (generally, c. 2500 to ?600 B.C.) … Punt has never been identified with certainty. The textual records that have survived, when their information is pooled, provide us with enough information to suggest strongly a generalized area within the eastern coastal regions of the modern Sudan south of modern Port Sudan, Eritrea and northern-most Ethiopia, or somewhere further inland … »

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