Karanog

Karanog (

University of Pennsylvania Museum.^[1]

Karanog was occupied throughout the Meroitic period from the third century BC. By the second century AD, it was of strategic significance on Kush's northern frontier with Rome, facing Egyptian

mud brick construction, have not been preserved.^[1]

The cemetery at Karanog also served the nearby towns of Akin and Shimale. The distribution of grave goods shows a high level of social stratification, although the cemetery was extensively plundered over the years. Some of the less plundered graves contain luxury items, including jewellery; bronze utensils, bowls and lamps; glass beads; iron arrowheads; cotton and linen textiles; carpentry tools; ebony- and ivory-inlaid wooden objects; painted ceramics and even faience.^[1]

Karanog also contained no less than 100 objects—offering altars to

Egyptian demotic may be the only case of the latter found south of Egypt.^[1]

Karanog remained occupied even after the fall of Kush, when it came under the so-called X-Group culture. With the arrival of the Nubians, it disappears from the archaeological record. Today, its remains lie under Lake Nasser.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Richard Lobban, Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia (Scarecrow Press, 2004), pp. 215–16.

Woolley, C. Leonard; Randall-MacIver, D. (1910). Karanòg: The Romano-Nubian Cemetery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum.
Woolley, C. Leonard (1911). Karanòg: The Town. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum.
Griffith, F. L. (1911). Karanòg: The Meroitic Inscriptions of Shablûl and Karanòg. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum.

[lobban-1] Richard Lobban, Historical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubia (Scarecrow Press, 2004), pp. 215–16.

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