The Jujube Tree. Sacred city of the black pharaohs.
Cheops| N° d'inventaire | 23770 |
| Format | 25 x 29 |
| Détails | 312 p., publisher's hardcover. |
| Publication | Paris, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782916142227 |
This volume follows the work entitled The Egyptian Temples of Panebes "The Jujube Tree" at Doukki Gel (Sudan), published in 2018. It synthesizes twenty-five years of research on the site of Doukki Gel and its surroundings, from the 1st millennium BC to the 4th century AD. It presents the archaeological and epigraphic findings obtained on this site, which lies less than a kilometer from the ancient city of Kerma, placing them in the historical context of the main periods concerned: the 25th dynasty during which kings from Napata, near the 4th cataract of the Nile, reigned over Egypt (721-656 BC), the Napatan royalty (656-270 BC) which saw their successors driven out of Egypt develop an original mixed culture, and finally the Meroitic kingdom (270 BC-340 AD), a culture even more marked by black Africa.
Heir to the capital of the kingdom of Kerma, this exceptional site is at the origin of the most representative Sudanese kingdoms of Antiquity. Its archaeological and epigraphic remains, although profoundly reworked and disrupted many times over more than a thousand years, reveal the existence, side by side, of places of worship inspired by Egyptian tradition and by indigenous traditions, of defensive systems totally unknown elsewhere and preserve a remarkable number of significant chronological milestones during a very poorly known period.
The remains of successive Egyptian-style temples include multiple categories of stone reliefs, paintings, and high reliefs in mortar. They provide valuable evidence for which revealing comparisons can be made at various contemporary sites such as Naga, Mouweis, or El-Hassa. At the same time, mud-brick sanctuaries restore a hitherto completely unknown architecture whose transformations can be followed over nearly a millennium. Comparisons with the neighboring site of Tabo provide valuable information, particularly in terms of architecture and urban planning.
This volume follows the work entitled The Egyptian Temples of Panebes "The Jujube Tree" at Doukki Gel (Sudan), published in 2018. It synthesizes twenty-five years of research on the site of Doukki Gel and its surroundings, from the 1st millennium BC to the 4th century AD. It presents the archaeological and epigraphic findings obtained on this site, which lies less than a kilometer from the ancient city of Kerma, placing them in the historical context of the main periods concerned: the 25th dynasty during which kings from Napata, near the 4th cataract of the Nile, reigned over Egypt (721-656 BC), the Napatan royalty (656-270 BC) which saw their successors driven out of Egypt develop an original mixed culture, and finally the Meroitic kingdom (270 BC-340 AD), a culture even more marked by black Africa.
Heir to the capital of the kingdom of Kerma, this exceptional site is at the origin of the most representative Sudanese kingdoms of Antiquity. Its archaeological and epigraphic remains, although profoundly reworked and disrupted many times over more than a thousand years, reveal the existence, side by side, of places of worship inspired by Egyptian tradition and by indigenous traditions, of defensive systems totally unknown elsewhere and preserve a remarkable number of significant chronological milestones during a very poorly known period.
The remains of successive Egyptian-style temples include multiple categories of stone reliefs, paintings, and high reliefs in mortar. They provide valuable evidence for which revealing comparisons can be made at various contemporary sites such as Naga, Mouweis, or El-Hassa. At the same time, mud-brick sanctuaries restore a hitherto completely unknown architecture whose transformations can be followed over nearly a millennium. Comparisons with the neighboring site of Tabo provide valuable information, particularly in terms of architecture and urban planning.