A Late Christian Pilgrimage Centre in Nubia

Łajtar, Adam

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“…Wall painted decorations in the church testify its rich history. The enormous number of inscriptions all over the site (Greek, Old Nubian, and others) left on its walls by visitors, from as far as southern France and Yemen, strongly suggests that Banganarti was an important pilgrimage and healing centre (Łajtar, 2020; Łajtar & Płóciennik, 2011).…”

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Beads from a mediaeval pilgrim centre: Chemical composition and provenance of glass from Banganarti, Nubia, Sudan

Then-Obłuska

Dussubieux

2022

Archaeometry

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Christian Nubia was a region with intensive transcultural connections that are visible through the understudied overseas glass bead imports found there. This paper presents the results of an analysis of 20 glass beads from Banganarti, a Christian pilgrim site active during the Makuria kingdom (mid-sixth to 14th centuries CE). Compositional analyses using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) have identified glass belonging to a number of broad compositional groups. Two beads were made of mineral soda-lime glass, dated before the mid-ninth century CE. Numerous beads were made from plant ash-soda-lime glass associated with "Mesopotamian" production dated between the eighth and 10th centuries CE. Lead-soda-silica glass has parallels in the ninth-10th centuries glass found in Africa and Europe. One plant ash-soda-lime bead was of eastern Mediterranean origin dated after the 10th century CE. Results of this study provide new evidence for provenance and chronology of glass beads available in the mediaeval Northeast Africa as well as contribute new data to the research on the pilgrim and/or trade routes of that time.

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Beads from a mediaeval pilgrim centre: Chemical composition and provenance of glass from Banganarti, Nubia, Sudan

Then-Obłuska

Dussubieux

2022

Archaeometry

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“…The fact that the two letters stand between the toponym (Pachoras) and the designation of function (deacon) in the next line is telling. A current pattern in presentation of Nubian clergymen, as observed in numerous examples, is name + toponym + name of church + function, as, for example, ⳝⲁⲅⳝⲉⲛ ⲓ︦ ⲥ ⲙⲉ⸌ⲅ⸍ ⲇⲓⲁ⸌ⲕ⸍ = ⳝⲁⲅⳝⲉⲛ Ἰ(ησοῦ)ς μέγ(ας) διάκ(ονος), "deacon of the Great (Church of) Jesus at Jagje" (Łajtar 2020(Łajtar : no. 349 [DBMNT 2201).…”

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Female diaconate in medieval Nubia: evidence from a wall inscription from Faras

Ochała

2023

Bull. Sch. Orient. Afr. stud.

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This paper offers a re-edition and reinterpretation of a Greek inscription painted on a wall at the Rivergate Church at Faras in medieval Nubia and dated to the thirteenth–fourteenth centuries. This dedicatory prayer is the first evidence for the existence of the female diaconate in the entire Nile Valley. While the close reading of the text in its architectural and art-historical settings allows us to formulate some hypotheses about the functions of Nubian deaconesses, in a broader perspective, the inscription is also a valuable piece of evidence for the high position of Nubian women on the one hand and the “Byzantineness” of Christian Nubian culture on the other.

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“…26 An exact date of 1484 first appears in an article by Stuart Munro-Hay, 27 but, frustratingly, without any reference to its origin. The document is also referenced by Adam Łajtar, with a date of 1483, 28 32 The inscription from Tamit can be dated to the same period as the Gebel Adda and Qasr Ibrim sales, mentioning both ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ ⲓⲱⲏⲗⲇⲟ, 'king Iōēl' (l. 9), and ⲙⲉⲣⲕⲓ̈ⲥⲗⲙ̣ ⲛ̄ ⲡ̣ ⲁ̣ ⲡⲁ̣ ⲥ̣ ⲗⲟ, 'bishop Merki of Ibrim' (l. 14). 33 The inscription from Abu Oda can unfortunately not be reconstructed from the photographic plates made during the 1908/10 Prussian Expedition to Philae, 34 so we have to rely on Griffith's own transcription, which mentions on line 2 ⲁⲓ̈ⲓ̈ⲱⲏⲗ ⲟ̣ ⲩⲣⲟⲩⳣⲏ̄ ⲇⲱⲧⲁⲩⳣⲟⲛ ⲟⲩⲣⲟⲩ, 'I, Iōēl, king of the kingdom of Dotawo'.…”

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An Old Nubian sale from Gebel Adda

Gerven Oei

2023

JJurP

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This article provides the editio princeps of an Old Nubian land sale discovered in Gebel Adda in 1966. The document details the sale of several plots of land to and by a woman called Sewamē and her son Newarē. The first part of the sale contains a short description of the sale, followed by an extended curse containing several terms not previously attested in Old Nubian. The second part starts with an invocation of the Trinity in Greek and Old Nubian, followed by the protocol and a second, expanded description of the sale. This is followed by a list of witnesses and (largely illegible) signature of the scribe. After a transcription, translation, and grammatical analysis of the text, there is an extended commentary of its linguistic features and the question of its dating.

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A Late Christian Pilgrimage Centre in Nubia

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Beads from a mediaeval pilgrim centre: Chemical composition and provenance of glass from Banganarti, Nubia, Sudan

Beads from a mediaeval pilgrim centre: Chemical composition and provenance of glass from Banganarti, Nubia, Sudan

Female diaconate in medieval Nubia: evidence from a wall inscription from Faras

An Old Nubian sale from Gebel Adda

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