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Christian Nubia: a review

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

O. G. S. Crawford
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Antiquity , Volume 21 , Issue 81 , March 1947 , pp. 10 - 15
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1947

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References

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1 e.g. Die Christliche Zeit Nubiens und des Sudans, by Günther Roeder. Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte XXIII (Gotha, 1912), 364-98.

2 La Nubia medioevale: two volumes fully illustrated; published in 1935 by the Service des Antiquités de l’Egypte. Two others were announced as forthcoming in 1938, but so far as I know they have not yet appeared. Their publication is much to be desired.

3 Her name seems to have been Mnir’ns.

4 Amongst these is a ruIer Kinidd. Is this name preserved in the place-name Kindin-Kalo recorded on Cailliaud’s map, 4 miles above Semneh?

5 Journ. R. Geogr. Soc. II , 1832, 188.

6 Burckhardt, Travels in Nubia, 497. In Burckhardt’s original manuscript of this translation which differs considerably from the printed version, the name is written Silha : Papers of Burckhardt, British Museum, 30, 240A, fol. 30v.

7 Akasha derives its name from the tomb of a saint whom Burckhardt who saw the tomb (p. 50) calls Sheikh Okashe. It cannot therefore have any verbal connexion with Makrizi’s Bastu (spelt in five different ways), nor are we sure that our author does really mean (p. 137) to suggest this.

8 For these see ‘The Oxford University Excavations at Firka’, by L. P. Kirwan, O.U.P., 1939.

9 ‘Christian Documents from Nubia’, by F. L1. Griffith, Proc. Brit. Acad. XIV, 16.

10 Burckhardt, Travels, 156.

11 Travels in Ethiopia, by G. A. Hoskins, 1835, 255. The tombs of the Kings at Thebes were called Beban el Malook according to G. Belzoni, Narrative of Operations and Recent Discoveries, 2nd ed., 1821, 224.

12 Travels, 362.

13 Compare the name Assur (=the Wall) which occurs at Meroe ; Murviedro (‘old walls’), the ancient Saguntum, in Spain ; and names of the type Oldbury, Palaikastro, Astypalaea. An exact parallel to Soba would be Wall in Staffordshire, on the site of the Roman Letocetum. The Soba name is common near Roseires, where it is given to ancient sites (Sudan Notes & Records, 1930, XIII, 256).