Tomb 26 on Sai Island: A New Kingdom elite tomb and its relevance for Sai and beyond

 Tomb 26 on Sai Island: A New Kingdom elite tomb and its relevance for Sai and beyond 

Julia Budka | 2021 

Paperback ISBN: 9789464260151 | Hardback ISBN: 9789464260168 | Imprint: Sidestone Press | Format: 210x280mm | 380 pp. | Language: English | 75 illus. (bw) | 275 illus. (fc) | Keywords: Sudan; Nubia; New Kingdom; Sai Island; funerary practise; tomb architecture; burial customs; funerary archaeology; Egyptian archaeology; Egyptology | download cover

New Kingdom burial customs in Nubia (northern Sudan) are well traceable by means of large cemeteries, in particular Egyptian style rock-cut shaft tombs with pyramidal superstructures. These tombs and their contents have lately been discussed as important data sets offering insights into the diverse population, material culture, funerary and social practices in New Kingdom Nubia.

A new rock-cut shaft tomb, potentially with pyramidal superstructure (Tomb 26), was discovered by the AcrossBorders project on Sai Island in 2015. This tomb yielded intact interments of officials connected with the Egyptian administration of colonial Nubia, buried together with family members and rich burial assemblages. Tomb 26 allows a close comparison with contemporaneous evidence from the nearby New Kingdom town of Sai, therefore providing a more complete picture of life and death in New Kingdom colonial Nubia. This book is the final publication of Tomb 26, its architecture and material culture, including chapters on geology, human remains, scientific analyses and a compilation of the material discovered. New information provided by AcrossBorders excavations of Tomb 26 contribute to recently discussed questions regarding cultural encounters and social practices in New Kingdom Nubia. Comparable material from other tombs on Sai and elsewhere in Nubia is discussed in order to stress the relevance of the new discovery.

The archaeological contextualisation of Tomb 26, in combination with scientific analyses like strontium isotope analysis, offers fresh information on the complex coexistence of various cultural groups on Sai with slightly different approaches to their cultural and social affinities during the New Kingdom. Overall, Tomb 26 and its associated finds are of prime significance for understanding lived experience on New Kingdom Sai and more broadly in New Kingdom Nubia.

with contributions by
Johannes Auenmüller, Cajetan Geiger, Rennan Lemos, Andrea Stadlmayr and Marlies Wohlschlager

Preface
Julia Budka

Chapter 1: Introduction
Julia Budka

Chapter 2: AcrossBorders’ excavations in SAC5
Julia Budka

Chapter 3: The architecture and building phases of Tomb 26
Julia Budka

Chapter 4: The geology of Tomb 26
Cajetan Geiger

Chapter 5: The artefacts including the ceramics of Tomb 26
Julia Budka

Chapter 6: Anthropological report of human remains recovered from Tomb 26
Marlies Wohlschlager and Andrea Stadlmayr

Chapter 7: The individual tomb groups of Tomb 26
Julia Budka

Chapter 8: The reconstruction of the use-life of Tomb 26
Julia Budka

Chapter 9: Tomb 26 in the context of cemetery SAC5
Julia Budka

Chapter 10: Cemetery SAC5 and its relation to the New Kingdom town of Sai
Julia Budka

Chapter 11: Khnummose and a group of New Kingdom stone shabtis – insights into colonial society in 18th Dynasty Nubia
Johannes Auenmüller and Rennan Lemos

Chapter 12: Summary
Julia Budka

Bibliography
Appendix

 

 

 

 

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Wikipedia List of cuneiform signs

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Cuneiform is one of the earliest systems of writing, emerging in Sumer in the late fourth millennium BC.

The signs in the following list are ordered by their 2004 Borger number (MesZL). Archaic versions of cuneiform writing, including the Ur III (and earlier, ED III cuneiform of literature such as The Barton Cylinder) are not included due to extreme complexity of arranging them consistently and unequivocally by the shape of their signs;^[1] see Early Dynastic Cuneiform for the Unicode block.

The columns within the list contain:

1. MesZL: The sign numbers of Rykle Borger's Mesopotamisches Zeichenlexikon (2004);
2. ŠL/HA: The Deimel Numbers from Šumerisches Lexikon (ŠL), completed and accommodated in Ellermeier and Studt's Handbuch Assur (HA);
3. aBZL: The numbers of Mittermayer's Altbabylonische Zeichenliste der sumerisch-literarischen Texte (2006);
4. HethZL: The numbers of Rüster and Neu's Hethitisches Zeichenlexikon (1989);
5. Sign Name according to MesZL, HA etc.;
6. The Unicode code points numbers (»A & B« and »A & B & C« indicates the numerous characters that must be written by combining two or three shorter signs);
7. The Unicode sign names;
8. Comments.

In MesZL, signs are sorted by their leftmost parts, beginning with horizontal strokes (single AŠ, then stacked TAB, EŠ₁₆), followed by the diagonals GE₂₃ and GE₂₂, the Winkelhaken U and finally the vertical DIŠ. The relevant shape for the classification of a sign is the Neo-Assyrian one (after ca. 1000 BC); the standardization of sign shapes of this late period allows systematic arrangement by shape.

The difference between the conventional sign names - they are used in MesZL, HA, aBZL and other standard publications - and the names in the Unicode 5.0 cuneiform encoding standard is often very significant. So the Unicode names as well as the standard ones are listed.

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• 1 AŠ
• 2 TAB (two AŠ)
• 3 EŠ₁₆ (three AŠ)
• 4 GE₂₃ (DIŠ-tenû)
• 5 U
• 6 DIŠ
• 7 See also
• 8 References
  • 8.1 Citations
  • 8.2 Bibliography
• 9 External links

 

Was vom Himmel kommt: Stoffanalytische Zugänge zu antiken Mythen aus Mesopotamien, Ägypten, Griechenland und Rom

Was vom Himmel kommt: Stoffanalytische Zugänge zu antiken Mythen aus Mesopotamien, Ägypten, Griechenland und Rom

What Comes from the Sky: Material Analysis Approaches to Ancient Myths from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Rome

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 In ancient myths, the sky is a numinous space. What comes from it is of outstanding importance. This transdisciplinary volume by the Collegium Mythologicum explores myths that involve transfers from the sky. The volume utilizes the hylistics established by Christian Zgoll to combine and compare its findings. Ultimately, transfers from the sky prove to be indicators of numinosity in mythical garb.

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Vorwort Open Access

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Inhalt Open Access

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Abkürzungsverzeichnis Open Access

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Teil 1: Einführendes und Theoretisch- Methodisches
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Grundlagen der hylistischen Mythosforschung Christian Zgoll Open Access

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Götter, Tempel, numinose Machtmittel ... Brit Kärger Open Access

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Demons and Tutelary Deities from Heaven Elyze Zomer Open Access

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Skyfall oder mythische Hyleme zum Herabkommen aus dem Himmel Franziska Naether Open Access

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Göttergaben und Götterstürze Christian Zgoll Open Access

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Teil 3: Einzelstudien
Wie der erste Tempel auf die Erde kommt Annette Zgoll Open Access

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Von Adlerflügen und numinosen Insignien Gösta Gabriel Open Access

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Vom Himmel oder nicht vom Himmel? Jörg v. Alvensleben Open Access

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Vom Himmel gefallen Christian Zgoll Open Access

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Wie Hypnos nach Lemnos kam Matthias Theißen Open Access

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Himmelsschilde und Blitze Nils Jäger Open Access

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Ausgangs- und Zielpunkte des Transfers vom Himmel in antiken Mythen Brit Kärger Open Access

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Wer oder was vom Himmel kommt Annette Zgoll Open Access

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Akteure von Transfers vom Himmel Annika Cöster-Gilbert Open Access

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Art und Weise des Transfers vom Himmel Jörg v. Alvensleben and Nils Jäger Open Access

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Mittel des Transfers vom Himmel Franziska Naether and Elyze Zomer Open Access

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Lugalbandas Königtum und das Feuer des Prometheus Annette Zgoll and Christian Zgoll Open Access

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Namens-, Sach- und Stellenregister Open Access

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• Language: German
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Copyright year: 2021
• Audience: Scholars in the fields of (comparative) literary studies, ancient Near East studies, classical studies, egyptology, ethnology
• Pages
  • Front matter: 26
  • Main content: 626
• Illustrations
  • Illustrations: 7
  • Coloured Illustrations: 2
  • Tables: 148
• Keywords: Myth; classical antiquity; ancient Near East; Greece

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• Published: September 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9783110743005

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• Published: September 7, 2021
• ISBN: 9783110742879