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Documentary evidence and the production of power in medieval Nubia
Afriques, 2016 Documents from Qasr Ibrim in northern Nubia reveal the administrative and legal practices of medieval Africa. The land sales provide direct glimpses into the activity of the eparch of Nobadia, the region’s highest political official, who was active in ...
Giovanni R. Ruffini
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Was King Merkourios (696 - 710), an African ‘New Constantine’, the unifier of the Kingdoms and Churches of Makouria and Nobadia? – A re-examination and alternative suggestions. [PDF]
Pharos Journal of Theology, 2019 This article examines the existing sources on King Merkourios and the unification of Nobadia and Makouria with the intension to shed light on the King’s probable contribution to this unification and the fact that he has been called a “New Constantine” by
Benjamin Hendrickx (Emeritus Professor)
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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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Elements of Christian popular piety in Nubia (VI-XVI century) – an outline of aspects
Annales Missiologici Posnanienses, 2019 The study of Christian popular piety in Nubia is very difficult, because after the old Christian communities in Nubia only ruins of churches, towns and villages buried in the desert sand, which are successfully examined by archaeologists from various ...
Katarzyna Anna Mich
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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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Frontiers in Environmental ArchaeologyMedieval Nubia (ca. sixth–fifteenth centuries CE) is frequently portrayed as a culturally uniform landscape—Christianized, politically cohesive, and materially consistent from Nobadia to Alwa.
Joanna A. Ciesielska
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Archaeometry, Volume 66, Issue 4, Page 860-876, August 2024.Abstract Raman spectroscopy and laser ablation‐inductively coupled plasma‐mass spectrometry were used to characterize the chemical composition of 34 red garnet beads from Lower Nubian sites, dated between about 3200 BCE and 600 CE. All beads from the A‐Group to the Meroitic period feature a similar calcium‐poor almandine composition (69%–78% almandine,
H. Albert Gilg +2 more
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Tracing the origins of Carnelian ornaments in Northeast Africa: morphological, technological and chemical compositional analyses of beads from medieval and post-medieval upper Nubia, Sudan. [PDF]
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The Urkunden of the Eparchos of Nobadia and their Compositio
Journal of Early Christian History, 2011This article analyses and 'dissects' the Urkunden of the eparchos of Nobadia according to the rules, applied in the Byzantine diplomatique, thereby examining the Nubian Archives of Qasr Ibrim and referring to the Nubian chancelleries. A comparison is made not only with the late-Roman and Byzantine prototypes, but also with aspects of the Urkunden ...
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