Funj-period residential quarter within the city walls:

Wyżgoł, Maciej; Deptuła, Agata

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“…Worthy of note is the lack of narrow back rooms in wattle-and-daub dwellings (Figure 3, Figure 6). However, there are also some departures from this pattern in the case of sun-dried brick houses (e.g., U6 and U5 both lack a narrow storage room (Wyżgoł, 2021b: 46; Deptuła, 2021a: 50)).…”

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“…Additional, smaller benches were often added to the largest one or next to other walls. The interiors also featured benches with embedded stoves, as in U6 (Wyżgoł, 2021b: 46). Dwellings with similar layouts are also known from other sites in the Middle Nile Valley, especially in its northern part: Gergetti Island (Vila, 1977: 32–37), Kayendi (Vila, 1978: 81–85), Soumbout (Vila, 1978: 29–30) and Jebel Kadamusa (Osman et al, 2012: 187–194), and were still widespread in northern Sudan in the 20 th century (Dirar, 1993: 389).…”

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“…A division into “clean” and “dirty” spaces seems to be the basic symbolic criterion of spatial division. It is indicated by the fact that only the main rooms were whitewashed and apparently regularly swept, while occupation layers composed largely of rubbish accumulated in storage rooms and courtyards (Wyżgoł, 2021b: 41–50, Wyżgoł, 2021c: 187–193).…”

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“…The long and narrow room located in the back of the house (Figure 2, Figure 5), and accessible only from the main room, was evidently used for storage. There were usually no special equipment or fixtures present, and in the accumulated floor layers fragments of cooking vessels, stone tools and basketry predominated, along with an abundant admixture of organic material (Wyżgoł, 2021b: 41–50; Wyżgoł, 2021c: 187–193; De Lellis et al, 2021: 86–95).…”

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“…Therefore, courtyards most likely served as the main domestic workspaces. These sometimes functioned alongside separate rooms in houses, such as U8 (Wyżgoł, 2021b: 45) and U15 (Wyżgoł, 2021d: 193), which were also found to contain querns, clay bins and hearths (Figure 5, Figure 6).…”

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Assembling a household in the Middle Nile Valley (Old Dongola, Sudan) in the 16th–17th centuries

Wyżgoł

Deptuła

2023

Journal of Social Archaeology

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Old Dongola, with a history reaching back to the 5th century AD, was originally the capital of Makuria, one of the three medieval Nubian kingdoms. After the collapse of Makuria, its capital city saw migratory movements and political changes that resulted in the emergence of new power relations. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the city was the seat of a local ruler subordinate to the Funj Sultanate. New communities that emerged in this setting inhabited the city until the colonial era. This paper examines the ways in which Funj-period households, as fundamental social units in Old Dongola, were mutually constitutive with houses, engaging with their spatiality and materiality through social practices. The authors investigate domestic labour, which was an essential factor in the negotiation of social differences and identities within the household. Differences in building techniques are analysed to compare various ways in which dwellers engaged with houses and to assess their implications for social differentiation within the city.

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Section: Dwelling In Old Dongolamentioning

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Section: Dwelling In Old Dongolamentioning

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