Faras
 Faras' position within Nubia (upper left) | |
| Location | Faras Wadi Halfa |
|---|---|
| Region | Wadi Halfa Nubia |
| Coordinates | 22°12′00″N 31°28′00″E / 22.2°N 31.4666°E |
| History | |
| Cultures | Nubia Ancient Egypt |
Faras (formerly
Latin: Pachoras; Old Nubian: Ⲡⲁⲭⲱⲣⲁⲥ, Pakhoras[1]) was a major city in Lower Nubia. The site of the city, on the border between modern Egypt and Sudan at Wadi Halfa Salient, was flooded by Lake Nasser in the 1960s and is now permanently underwater. Before this flooding, extensive archaeological work was conducted by a Polish archaeological team led by professor Kazimierz Michałowski
.
History
Sudan National Museum
in Khartoum)National Museum in Warsaw
)
Dating back to the
Meroitic period, and was the site of a major temple. During the period of ancient Egyptian control over Nubia, Faras became an Egyptian administrative centre and, located upriver from Abu Simbel
, Egyptian cultural influences were prominent.
The city reached its height during the Christian period of Nubia, when Faras was the capital of the basiliskos
eparch
.
Archaeology
In 1909–1912, research on the site was conducted by a British expedition from the
In addition, a major pottery workshop was found.Thanks to the discovery of the List of Bishops of Faras, it was possible to date each episcopate and thus to establish the date of some of the wall paintings.[3]
In the turbulent later years of Christian Nubia, Faras seems to have declined and the administrative centre moved to the more easily defended area of Qasr Ibrim.
See also
- Coptic Diocese of Faras
- Faras Gallery at the National Museum in Warsaw
References
- ^ "TM Places". www.trismegistos.org. Retrieved 2020-03-21.
- ^ ISBN 9788323532361.
- ^ a b c "Faras". pcma.uw.edu.pl. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
- OCLC 801028680.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Faras.
External links
- Faras Gallery in the National Museum in Warsaw
- Faras - the salvage excavations
- Polish excavations at Faras, video on YouTube
- Description of exhibition on Faras, Vienna 2002
- Medieval Nubia Archived 2018-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
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