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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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Animal remains from the Early Makurian cemetery in el-Zuma(season 2013) [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2016 Excavation in 2013 of two tumuli, T.15 and T.21, making up part of the Early Makuriancemetery at El-Zuma, yielded numerous animal bones among other finds.
Urszula Iwaszczuk
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The Necropolis of an Early Makurian Elite
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 To contextualise the necropolis at El-Zuma in the history of Ancient Nubia and demonstrate its elite status within local social structures, we need to look at it from various perspectives: from the purely architectural aspect of the grave constructions ...
Mahmoud El-Tayeb
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Pottery in the Funerary Context of El-Zuma Tumuli
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 Asmentioned inChapter 2, we do not havemuch information about the period between the fall of the Meroitic Kingdom and the rise of the Kingdom of Makuria in the Dongola Reach.
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Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 Archaeological research at the El-Zuma site was started in 2004/05 (Mahmoud El-Tayeb 2005; Godlewski 2005). As part of the research project, the first contemporary geodetic survey of the site was carried out (using a theodolite) by Yassin Mohamed Saeed ...
Zofia Kowarska
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Vessel Distribution at the Site
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 An essential aspect in the examination of this pottery assemblage is the distribution of vessels inside the graves. An overview of this distribution is presented in Chapter 7.18, where the vessels are presented in their archaeological context (see p. 319,
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Metalwork: Methods and Analysis
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 A number of metal artefacts discovered during the excavations required various conservation treatments. Their state of preservation varied depending on their particular depositional environment and on the metal from which the object or element was made ...
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The Function of Vessels from the El-Zuma Repertoire
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 As mentioned in Chapter 2, the function of the El-Zuma pottery should be analysed from both social and religious perspectives, hence we need to examine its function in domestic life and also its symbolic function in the realm of ritual and burial ...
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The Christian Nubia and the Arabs
Studia Ceranea, 2015 Nubia constituted the area in the Nile Valley in the present day Sudan, the area which spread from the first cataract up to the place where the White Nile meets the Blue Nile. The area was inhabited by the population using a common language – Old Nubian.
Małgorzata Martens-Czarnecka
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Metal Alloys, Metal Deposits and Workshop Centres
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set), 2021 In a discussion about metal and metallurgy in Ancient Nubia, we cannot ignore Egypt and the influence of Mesopotamian metallurgy in Egypt. Knowledge of Nile Valley metalworking came from the study of smelting scenes from Egyptian tombs.
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