Meretseger Books

Egypt and Africa. Nubia from prehistory to Islam.

DAVIES William Vivian

Item #M0435a

British Museum Press, London, 1991. First edition. In-4, x & 320 pages, 16 plates. Original blue softcover, a fine copy. Contents: L'archéologie nubienne et soudanaise : passé, présent et futur / Jean Vercoutter (4 p.). -- The National Museum of Nubia at Aswan / Gamal Mokhtar (1 p.). -- Prehistoric hunters, hurders and tradesman in central Sudan : data from the Geili Region / Isabella Caneva (10 p.). -- Néolithique soudanais : les coutumes funéraires / Jacques Reinold (14 p.). -- Relationships between the Central Nile Valley and the eastern Sudan in later prehistory / Anthony E Marks (10 p.). -- At the periphery of the empire : the Gash Delta (Eastern Sudan) / Rodolfo Fattovich (9 p.). -- Trade routes of the ancient Sudan, 3000 B.C.--A.D. 350 / Peter L Shinnie (5 p.). -- Connections between ancient Egypt and Sub-Saharan Africa : the evidence of cultivated plants / Roger Blench (3 p.). Burial customs in the Upper Main Nile : an overview / Francis Geus (17 p.). -- A prospectus for exploring the historical essence of ancient Nubia / Bruce Williams (18 p.). -- The development of the "A-Group" culture in northern Lower Nubia / H.S Smith (20 p.). -- Upper Nubia from 3000 to 1000 B.C / Charles Bonnet (6 p.). -- The stone vase deposit at Kerma / Peter Lacovara (11 p.). -- Relations between Egypt and Kerma during the Middle and New Kingdoms / Janine Bourriau (16 p.). -- Counting gifts to the dead : a holistic approach to the burial customs of Lower Nubia using correspondence analysis / Paul J.J Sinclair (20 p.). -- Early states along the Nubian Nile / David O'Connor (21 p.). Te-khet, the cultural and sociopolitical structure of a Nubian princedom in Tuthmoside times / Torgny Säve-Söderbergh (9 p.). -- Iconography and mentality : three remarks on the Kushite way of thinking / László Török (10 p.). -- The Saite and Persian period forts in Dorginarti / Lisa A Heidorn (15 p.). -- Proportion and harmony : the process of planning in Meroitic architecture / Friedrich W Hinkel (14 p.). -- Der Wein- und Ölimport im Meroitischen Reich / Inge Hofmann (12 p.). -- Plateaux de gobelets dans le sépultures de Méroéen: un équipement liturgique de la libation isiaque "éthiopienne" / Patrice Lenoble (7 p.). -- The birth of Christian Nubian art : some remarks / Wlodzimierz Godlewski (4 p.). -- "Egypt and Africa" in the British Museum / W.V Davies (7 p.). -- The Napatan Palace at Gebel Barkal : a first look at B 1200 / Timothy Kendall (12 p.). -- Nubia in the New Kingdom : the limits of Egyptian control / Robert G Morkot (8 p.). -- Old Nubian studies : past, present and future / Gerald M Browne (8 p.). -- Early medieval and pre-medieval Soba / Derek A Welsby (8 p.). -- Africa in Egypt : new evidence from Qasr Irbim / Mark Horton (14 p.). -- The United Kingdom of Makouria and Nobadia : a medieval Nubian anomaly / William Y Adams (7 p.). Language: English. Relevant subjects: Egypt: History, Astronomy & Geography, Nubia & Africa.

Language: English.

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