• Citer

Boats and Routes: New Rock Art in the Atbai Desert

par Cooper, Julien JC;Vanhulle, Dorian
Référence Sudan & Nubia, 23, page (3-12), 1
Publication Publié, 2019-01-01

Article révisé par les pairs

• Accès en ligne
• Détails
• Contenu
• Statistiques

Résumé :

In 2018 the SARS-Yale expedition to the Eastern Desert of Sudan surveyed some previously documented sites and also reconnoitred under- or un-explored regions of the desert for future fieldwork opportunities. This desert is well-known for its Egyptian inscriptions, almost entirely New Kingdom in date. Many of the same locales bearing pharaonic inscriptions also exhibited a generally earlier phase of rock art, usually depicting cattle and other fauna. As part of this wide survey of the Eastern Desert of Sudan, two new and noteworthy rock art sites were discovered by the SARS-Yale 2018 expedition, site 18.25 and site 18.27, the latter of which is presented in this paper as a unique record of 4th millennium BCE Naqadan or possibly A-Group iconography in the Sudanese Eastern Desert. The unnamed site 18.27 was named by the mission ‘Jebel Maraekib’ (Map 1), derived from Arabic plural of marakib ‘boat’ due to the depiction of 13 boats on the rock walls of the jebel.