A Fragment of a Liturgical Calendar from Gebel Adda (Egyptian Nubia)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21289762 |
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| Authors | Adam Łajtar (0000-0003-3842-2180), Efthymios Rizos |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 138 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 86-92 |
| Publication date | 2020-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Analecta Bollandiana (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-2468 • E-ISSN: 2507-0290 |
| Publisher | Brepols Publishers NV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1484/j.aboll.5.121477 |
| OpenAlex | W3043806419 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
Gebel Adda was an important settlement located on the east Nile bank, some dozens of kilometres north of the second cataract. It was inhabited from at least the beginning of the Common Era until modern times, with its heyday being in the Christian period (6th-15th centuries), especially towards the end of it. During those late-Christian times, the site, known as Atwa in internal Nubian sources and Daw in external Arabic ones, apparently performed the functions of a capital for the Christian Nubian Kingdom of Makuria. Excavated by the mission of the American Research Center in Egypt within the frame of the so-called Nubian Campaign of the 1960s, Gebel Adda is now lost under the waters of the Nubian Lake. Except for some preliminary reports, the results of the excavations were never published, while the artifacts discovered were dispersed all over the world 1 . The most important objects remained in Egypt and are housed in the Egyptian, Coptic, and Islamic Museums in Cairo, and in the Nubia Museum in Aswan. The majority of the finds, however, alongside the documentation of the dig, ended up in the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, and a small selection of objects was allotted to the National Geographic Society in Washington DC
Art · Humanities · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Biblical Studies and Interpretation
| Highly cited | No |
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