Kush: Ancient Sudan

Описание: Khartoum neolithic ceramics. Nabta Playa. Vulva petroglyphs. Stone figurines. Female icons of the "A-group” neolithic. Incised and painted pottery. Ritual stands. C-group archaeology. Megalithic burials. New styles of female figurines and incised ceramics. Black-on-red pots, a Nile valley pattern shared with late neolithic Egypt. The Kerma culture, class stratified kingdom with impressive architecture. Ivory hippo women, with same curved knife and crocodile teeth as Kemetic Taweret. Egyptian New Kingdom conquest, and Nubian tribute scenes in murals, with Sudanese captives. Medjay archers. The Napatan realm. Kushan line founds the 25th dynasty in Egypt, after Asiatic domination. Piye and Tarharqa revive Kemetic culture. Women of Kushan line: priestesses, queens. Pyramids at Nuri and their treasures. Queen Qalhata at el-Kurri. The red knots of Auset and Nebthet. Rock-cut temple of El-Kurru. The Aspelta stela shows a matrilineal succession, seven generations of female ancestors. Nubian high priestesses at Thebes, Amenirdas I and her successors. Faience winged goddess amulets.The massive temple complex at Mussawarat-es-Sufra, its megalithic elephants and fat carved pillars. Priestess queens. The kadake / kandakes. Mural relief of kadake Nawidemek Naldamak and Nahirqa. Amanishakheto and her gold regalia. Theme of goddess protecting the queens, breaking from the Egyptian pattern.Temple at Gebel Barkal. Amanitore at the lion temple of Apedemak; the gorgeous Hathor temple nearby. Statues of Meroitic queens. Isis and Maat in gold. Amanirenas defeats the Roman legions. Ba-statues, Kushan style. Meroitic scripts, syllabary of isolate language, and stone libation tables. Ceramics painted with Ankh, snakes, frogs, animals. Persistence of ancient cord-marked incised pottery. Ballana, Karanog, El Hobagi Tum. The magnificent Maat lintel of Sedeiqa. Merotic weaving and glasswork.The crowns of Ballana rulers of Nobatia. Byzantine conquest. The Bejas make a last stand for Isis and are driven into the eastern desert.Early medieval Nubian kingdoms, christianized but hanging on to matrilineage up to the 1100s, 1300s. Nubian women’s culture: mural paintings, drumming, healers.

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