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The Pharaonic Inscriptions from Faras - Hardcover

Janusz Karkowski

 
9788301012991: The Pharaonic Inscriptions from Faras

Synopsis

The history of Lower Nubia presents a special problem to those who have devoted their studies to it. On one hand, the fact that almost all the Lower Nubian sites were inundated after the construction of the New High Dam conditions work on the history of this land. Unlike other areas, it will be impossible to verify during future field works the results obtained from an examination of the available material. On the other hand, the great amount of new data, revealed during the international salvage works, provides the possibility to understand in an incomparably better way those changes to which this land and its population had been subjected.

This work is, first of all, intended to present and comment on the objects from Faras West which belong to the Pharaonic Period and which bear hieroglyphic inscriptions and representations to which these inscriptions refer. This category of objects contains fragments of the inscribed and decorated temple blocks, parts of stelae, inscribed statues, scarabs and seals. The earliest of them date to the Second Intermediate Period, the majority belong to the New Kingdom and several blocks of Taharka of the XXVth Dynasty form the latest group.

The second objective of the present work is to restore the history of Faras during the Pharaonic Period on the basis of the known objects and the other evidence available to the author. In this task reference is also made to the uninscribed objects (amulets, figurines, etc.) as well as the architectural remains of the same period which are known from Griffith's published report and/or documented by the author in Khartoum, London and Oxford.

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