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oi.uchicago.edu THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ORIENTAL INSTITUTE NUBIAN EXPEDITION VOLUME VIII EXCAVATIONS BETWEEN ABU SIMBEL AND THE SUDAN FRONTIER MEROITIC REMAINS FROM QUSTUL CEMETERY Q, BALLANA CEMETERY B, AND A BALLANA SETTLEMENT Thomas A. Holland * Editor with the assistance of Richard M. Schoen oi.uchicago.edu oi.uchicago.edu CAMPAGNE INTERNATIONALE POUR LA SAUVEGARDE DES MONUMENTS DE LA NUBIE THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO ORIENTAL INSTITUTE NUBIAN EXPEDITION VOLUME VIII EXCAVATIONS BETWEEN ABU SIMBEL AND THE SUDAN FRONTIER KEITH C. SEELE, DIRECTOR PART 8: MEROITIC REMAINS FROM QUSTUL CEMETERY Q, BALLANA CEMETERY B, AND A BALLANA SETTLEMENT PART 1: TEXT AND FIGURES by BRUCE BEYER WILLIAMS with a contribution by NICHOLAS B. MILLET THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO CHICAGO * ILLINOIS oi.uchicago.edu Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 91-60921 ISBN: 0-918986-71-0 The OrientalI nstitute © 1991 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. Published 1991. Printed in the United States of America. oi.uchicago.edu DEDICATION to Patricia A. Williams oi.uchicago.edu oi.uchicago.edu TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES .............................................................. xi LIST OF TABLES ............................................................. Xxiii LIST OF TEXT AND REGISTER ABBREVIATIONS.....................................xxv BIBLIOGRAPHY ............................................................. xxvii LIST OF BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS......................................xliii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ............................................................................................................... xlv PREFACE ................................................................... xlvii 1. MEROITIC REMAINS AT QUSTUL AND BALLANA.................. ................ 1 A. The Location of Meroitic Remains in the Concession..............................I Cemetery Q ........................................................ ...................... I Cemetery B ....................................................... ...................... 2 Other Finds ........................................................................... 2 B. The Construction of Cemeteries Q and B and the Chronology of Lower Nubia ............... 3 Archaeological Chronology in Meroitic Nubia ................................................... 3 The Distribution of Objects and Practices in Cemeteries Q and B ............................ 6 Archaeological Phases in Cemeteries Q and B................................................... 9 Structural Evidence for Chronology ............................................................... 15 Historical Correlations .............................................................................. 15 Stages in the Construction of Cemeteries Q and B .............................................. 20 C. Tombs and Burial Customs ........................................................................... 23 Phase I: The Simple Coffin Burial................................................................. 23 Changes in the Burial: Phases LB and II .......................................................... 25 Changes in the Burial: Phases III and IV ......................................................... 25 2. POTITERY...................................................................................................... 27 28 A. Manufacturing and the Classification of Meroitic Pottery......................................... B. Meroitic Pottery with Painted and Stamped Decoration: Kushite Wheelmade and Fine/Ordinary Pottery............................. 32 Pottery of Kushite Tradition.......................................... 32 Meroitic-Kushite Form Group II: Kushite Wheelmade Pottery ............................... 32 Meroitic-Kushite Form Group I: Meroitic Fine/Ordinary Pottery ............................ 34 C. Meroitic Painted Decoration........................................ 35 Design .......................................................................................... 35 Style..................................................................... 37 Motifs and Their Organization. ........................ .............. 40 vii oi.uchicago.edu MEROITIC REMAINS viii FROM QUSTUL AND BALLANA D. Meroitic Stamped Decoration ........................................................................ 59 E. Meroitic-Kushite Form Group III: Storage Jars ..................................................... 59 F. Meroitic-Kushite Form Group IV: Kushite Wheelmade Utility Vessels ........................ 60 G. Meroitic-Kushite Form Group V: Meroitic Handmade Ordinary Pottery....................... 61 H. Pottery Imported from Egypt.......................................................................... 62 I. Egyptian Form Group I: Egyptian Fine/Ordinary I................................................. 62 J. Painted Pottery from Egypt.............................................................. ... ,.........6 4 Phases.............................................................................................. 65 Style and the Vine Group........................................................................... 67 K. Egyptian Form Group II: Egyptian Pink Utility I.................................................... 67 L. Egyptian Form Group III, Chaff-Faced Utility Pottery: Egyptian Pink Utility IL .............. 68 M. Egyptian Form Group VI: Barbotine................................................................. 69 N. Brown Amphora Pottery............................................................................... 70 0. Egyptian Form Group IV: Aswan (?) Amphora Pottery ........................................... 70 P. Egyptian Form Group V, White Pottery from Upper Egypt: Fine/Ordinary hIA and B........ 71 Fine/Ordinary hA ................................................................................. 71 Fine/Ordinary IIB.................................................................................. 71 Slip: Q. Egyptian Form Group VII: African Red Terra Sigillata ..................................... 72 R. Pottery of Sudanese-Saharan Tradition.............................................................. 72 S. Conclusion: Meroitic Pottery in Lower Nubia....................................................... 74 Meroitic Painted Pottery ................................................... .......... s............ 74 The Vine Group ................................................................................... 794 3 Form and Variety in Meroitic Pottery ............................................. 74 3. OJE CTS...................................................................................................... A. Funerary Objects ....................................................................................... 93 Funerary Objects Stone and Cult .................................................................. 93 Objects Funerary from the Burials................................................................. 96 B. Secular Objects......................................................................................... 100 100 Introduction .......................................................................................... Leather.................................................. .......................................... 101 Wood ........................................................................................... 103 Metal ........................................................................................... 103 C. Military Equipment..........................d. 0 GC. raft 159 Implementsat....wis...*...*r....+s.............s......a......rs................................. 159 Cosmetic and Medical Instruments....."a...fa....tfsa.......s".f""................................ H. oi.uchicago.edu TABLE OFC ONTENTS ix 4. MEROITIC INSCRIPTIONS FROM QUSTUL AND BALLANA, by Nicholas BMillet..........163 5. CONCLUSION .............................................................................................................. 171 APPENDIX A: A RELATIVE CHRONOLOGY OF MEROITIC REMAINS BELOW THE FOURTH CATARACT........................................................... .... 175 APPENDIX B: A TABULAR CONCORDANCE OF POTITERY CLASSIFICATIONS FROM CERAMIC (N.D.) , IND USTR IES OF MEDIEVtAL NUB IA , ADAMS AND OINE ................. 191 FIGURES............................................................................................................ 196 oi.uchicago.edu
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