Kushite Stamp Impressions from Selib 2, Sudan

• Authors: Roksana Hajduga

Abstracts

EN

More than two hundred sealings have been found since 2010 at Selib 2, a small Meroitic settlement in the Dongola Reach. This group come from the same context, in the S2/1/2010 storehouse and the most prominent building within the settlement. This paper focuses on selected impressions of thirty-one seals found on sealings and discusses them mainly in terms of iconography. Motifs from the sealings are both figural and non-figural. They reflect Meroitic beliefs, culture and politics. The catalogue and description of individual sealings, complete with photographs and drawings of stamp impressions, provide a firm base for preliminary observation regarding religion, symbols used by administrations and political propaganda, as well as allowing one to trace external influences and adaptation of foreign patterns.

Keywords

EN

Nubia; Kush; Meroitic period; Selib 2; stamp seal; sealing; trade; transport

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Kultur Śródziemnomorskich i Orientalnych PAN
• Journal: Études et Travaux (Institut des Cultures Méditerranéennes et Orientales de l’Académie Polonaise des Sciences)
• Year: 2021
• Issue: 34
• Pages: 141-166

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

author

Roksana Hajduga

• Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw

• https://orcid.org/0000000272202571

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/EtudTrav.34.007

Biblioteka Nauki

1975673