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Royal ornaments of a late antique African kingdom, Early Makuria, Nubia (AD 450-550). Early Makuria Research Project

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dc.abstract.enAfter the fall of the Meroe kingdom, three entities – Nobadia, Early Makuria, and Alwa (Alodia) – emerged in northeast Africa between the 4th and the 6th centuries AD. Richly furnished elite cemeteries with tombs of the Nobadian kings are known from Qustul and Ballaña in Lower Nubia (Emery and Kirwan 1938), but until now no royal tombs of Early Makuria have been identified. A comparative analysis of some recently excavated adornments and ornaments from the tumulus cemetery of el-Zuma in Upper Nubia have now enabled the Early Makuria royal tombs (AD 450–550) to be placed there. The assemblages from three large tumuli are dominated by personal adornments (beads, pendants, earrings, chains, crosses, and a ring), royal regalia (cabochons and settings), and other decorated items (metal sheets, an intarsia and ivory gaming pieces). Apart from beads of various materials, like marine mollusk shell, ostrich eggshell, faience and stone, which were made probably in local workshops, the remaining items were imports from the Mediterranean and Sri Lanka/South India (glass beads in the latter case). Moreover, many of the decorated objects and the techniques used to make them find parallels in the elite Nobadian cemeteries of Qustul and Ballaña, hinting at the royal origin of some of the Early Makuria tomb owners at el-Zuma. These parallels induce the thought that there was a single workshop in late antique Nubia producing artifacts for the elite.
dc.affiliationUniwersytet Warszawski
dc.contributor.authorThen-Obłuska, Joanna
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-25T19:28:45Z
dc.date.available2024-01-25T19:28:45Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.date.openaccess6
dc.description.accesstimeAFTER_PUBLICATION
dc.description.financeNie dotyczy
dc.description.number1
dc.description.versionFINAL_PUBLISHED
dc.description.volume26
dc.identifier.doi10.5604/01.3001.0012.1817
dc.identifier.issn1234-5415
dc.identifier.urihttps://repozytorium.uw.edu.pl//handle/item/118807
dc.identifier.weblinkhttps://pam-journal.pl/resources/html/article/details?id=175196
dc.languageeng
dc.pbn.affiliationarchaeology
dc.relation.ispartofPolish Archaeology in the Mediterranean
dc.relation.pages687–718
dc.rightsOther
dc.sciencecloudnosend
dc.subject.enbeads
dc.subject.enpendants
dc.subject.enjewelry
dc.subject.encabochons in silver settings
dc.subject.enivory containers
dc.subject.enintarsia
dc.subject.enivory gaming pieces
dc.subject.enNubia
dc.subject.enAD 450–550
dc.subject.enlate antiquity
dc.subject.enEarly Makuria
dc.subject.enIndo-Pacific trade
dc.subject.enChristian symbols
dc.titleRoyal ornaments of a late antique African kingdom, Early Makuria, Nubia (AD 450-550). Early Makuria Research Project
dc.typeJournalArticle
dspace.entity.typePublication