Description
Book SynopsisThe historical context for a group of ancient and medieval figural graffiti found in 2015 at El-Kurru in northern Sudan, a royal pyramid burial ground of kings and queens of Kush from about 850 to 650 BCE. Written to engage non-specialist readers, the book will be of interest to archaeologists and historians with an interest in the Nile Valley.
Table of ContentsContents
List of Contributors
Overview Map
Timeline of Kush and Nubia
List of Abbreviations
Foreword. Graffiti in Ancient Kush and Medieval Nubia: An Introduction
Geoff Emberling and Suzanne Davis
1. A Cultural History of Kush: Politics, Economy, and Ritual Practice
Geoff Emberling
Excursus: Meroitic Graffiti at the Great Enclosure at Musawwarat es-Sufra
Suzanne Davis
2. Graffiti at El-Kurru: The Funerary Temple
Suzanne Davis and Geoff Emberling
3. Boat Graffiti on the El-Kurru Pyramid
Bruce Beyer Williams
Excursus: Terms for Boats and Navigation in Old Nubian
Alexandros Tsakos
4. Conservation and Documentation of Graffiti at El-Kurru
Suzanne Davis
5. Figural Graffiti from the Meroitic Era on Philae Island
Jeremy Pope
6. Discourses with the Holy: Text and Image Graffiti from the Pilgrimage
Churches of Saint Raphael the Archangel in Banganarti, Sudan
Bogdan ?urawski
7. An Overview of Nubian Rock Art in the Region of the 4th and 5th Cataracts
Fawzi Hassan Bakhiet
8. Graffiti at Pompeii, Italy
Rebecca Benefiel
Epilogue. Hajj Paintings in El-Araba and El-Ghabat, Egypt: A Photo Essay
Ayman Damarany
Catalog of Selected Graffiti from El-Kurru
Suzanne Davis, Geoff Emberling, and Bruce Beyer Williams
Introduction
Funerary Temple Ku. 1500
Pyramid Ku. 1
References
Concordances
