Aniba (Nubia)

Coordinates: 22°43′N 32°00′E / 22.717°N 32.000°E / 22.717; 32.000
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Tomb of Pennut, view from the entrance into the tomb

Aniba was a village in Nubia, about 230 km south of Aswan. The place is today flooded by the Lake Nasser. In ancient times it was an important town and called Miam. The region around the town was one of the most fertile in Lower Nubia.[1]

Earliest remains at Aniba date around 3000 BC and belong to the

C-Group Culture
.

Around the town were huge cemeteries, some of them belonging to Nubians, but other tombs were erected in purely Egyptian style. It is not known for sure whether the people buried here were Nubians that adopted Egyptian culture or whether these were Egyptians. One rather simple tomb belonged to the Viceroy of Kush Pinehesy, an important person also known from other sources.

The ceramics from the site was recently analysed again, and many tombs originally thought to be of New Kingdom dating, were identified as being from the Second Intermediate Period, thus changing the understanding of the site chronology.[2]

C-Group, Second Intermediate Period and New Kingdom metalwork from Aniba was recently analysed, found out to be made of arsenical copper and tin bronze, and sourced likely as far as Cyprus.[3]

A decorated rock cut tomb belonging to the deputy of Lower Nubia Pennut was relocated to New Amada as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia. The latter office had most likely its headquarter in Aniba.[4]

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22°43′N 32°00′E / 22.717°N 32.000°E / 22.717; 32.000