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Faunal remains from the fortified settlement aroundthe church at Banganarti in Sudan [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2016 The assemblage of faunal remains from Banganarti subjected to archaeozoological examinationcounted 4178 bones and fragments of bones. They represented contexts recorded withinthe fortified settlement around the church in Banganarti, attributed to two ...
Marta Osypińska
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Islamic glass in the Christian Kingdom of Alwa: Chemistry of shards from Soba, Nubia, Sudan
Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 6, Page 1232-1245, December 2023., 2023 Abstract Excavations at Soba, the capital of Alwa, between 2019 and 2022 yielded more than 30 glass fragments in addition to a glass cosmetic bottle. An analysis of 30 glass samples has identified glass belonging to a number of compositional groups.
Joanna Then‐Obłuska, Laure Dussubieux
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Overseas imports on the Blue Nile: Chemical compositional analysis of glass beads from Soba, Nubia
Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 5, Page 1018-1031, October 2023., 2023 Abstract Archaeological evidence as well as textual sources leave no doubt about Alwa's (Alodia's) intense transcultural connections, further corroborated by understudied overseas glass bead imports found there. This paper presents results of an analysis of 23 glass beads from Soba, the most prosperous capital of medieval Nubia.
Joanna Then‐Obłuska, Laure Dussubieux
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Archaeometry, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 862-880, August 2023., 2023 Abstract The location of Ghazali monastery away from the Nile valley within the relatively isolated environs of the Bayuda desert presents a landscape suggestive of mobility toward the monastery by those who chose to reside there as monks. To assess this potentiality, a sample of 37 individuals from the monastic cemetery (Cemetery 2) were analysed for ...
Robert J. Stark +2 more
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Pottery from Dongola: a stratigraphic assemblage from unit B.I.41 [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017 The article discusses an assemblage of pottery recovered from unit B.I.41 in the palatial building B.I excavated on the citadel of Dongola in the 2011 and 2012 seasons.
Katarzyna Danys
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Early Makuria Research Project Excavations at el-Zuma, 2017. Preliminary report [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017 During the tenth season of excavations at el-Zuma the mission resumed the previously postponed excavation of the last two tunnels beneath tumuli T.1 and T.4. Both tumuli were classified as Type I burials, based on their large size and unique construction.
Mahmoud El-Tayeb
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The arab sources on the war of the Caliphate with the christian Nubia and the role of the peace treaty of 651/652 in the political confrontation between Egypt and Nubia [PDF]
Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Сериа III. Филология, 2020 At the end of the 6th century, Christianity became an offi cial religion of the three Nubian kingdoms, i. e. Nobadia, Makuria, and Alwa, and as early as the second third of the 7th century, the expansion of Islam to the African continent begins.
Alexey Danshin
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Western Connections of Northeast Africa: The Garnet Evidence from Late Antique Nubia, Sudan
Archaeometry, Volume 63, Issue 2, Page 227-246, April 2021., 2021 Outstanding garnet beads were found recently in an elite tumulus dated to the fourth century AD and located at the cemetery of Hagar el‐Beida in the Upper Nubian Nile Valley region. Whereas contacts of Northeast Africa with South Asia have just been proven through analysis of glass beads found in Nubia and dating to the time of intensive Indian Ocean ...
J. Then‐Obłuska +3 more
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Animals from the tumuli in el-Detti in Sudan: from bone remains to studying ritual [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017 Excavation of seven tumuli during the 2015 season in a cemetery of Early Makurian date located in the village of el-Detti yielded an extensive animal bone assemblage, altogether 590 bone fragments, accompanying the other finds. Poor preservation resulted
Urszula Iwaszczuk
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Remarks on pottery production, technology and vessel usage in el-Zuma [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2017 Continuing excavation in the tumuli field in el-Zuma has yielded an extensive pottery assemblage, adding to the material that has already been published in general reports. New types and variants of vessels have been identified.
Ewa Czyżewska-Zalewska
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