1949.12.140.19

Collection type

Object

Description

Pottery sherd. Pink-grey or black on the outside and white on the inside, the sherd is undecorated. It is a roughly triangular body sherd. [BA [OPS move] 28/11/2017]

Geographical reference

Sudan, Republic of

Africa > Northern Africa > Sudan, Republic of

Jebel Moya

Person

Field collector Henry Solomon Wellcome

PRM source Wellcome Trustees

PRM source Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

Date

Date collected

1910 - 1914

Acquisition information

Donated: 1949

Materials and processes

Material Pottery, Process Fire-Hardened

Dimensions

Depth: max 8 mm, Width: max 143 mm, Length: max 160 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1949.12.140.19

Research and responses

As mentioned in Primary Documentation the archaeological excavations at Jebel Moya were published in 1949 by Frank Addison who was appointed to author the report after the death of Sir Henry Wellcome. Addison identified the main phase of activity at the site as being 1000-400 BC. In 1956 he published an article in the journal Kush in which he critiqued his own phasing and suggested 500 BC to 400 AD as more accurate. Full references: Addison, F. 1949. Jebel Moya: The Wellcome Excavations in the Sudan. London/Oxford: Oxford University Press (Published for the Trustees of the late Sir Henry Wellcome by the Oxford University Press). Addison F. 1956. Second thoughts on Jebel Moya. Kush 4: 4-18. [MN 16/02/2009]

A general review [in German] of the archaeological excavations at Jebel Moya was published in 1994 by Rudolf Gerharz as part of the Meroitica series. Gerharz reviewed the stratigraphy/phasing of the site and suggested a revised chronology; Phase I - 5000-3000 BC, Phase II 3000-800 BC and Phase III 800 - 100 BC. Full reference: Gerharz, R. 1994. Jebel Moya (Meroitica 14). Berlin: Akademie. [MN 16/02/2009]

A brief general summary of the Jebel Moya site can be found on the Digital Egypt website hosted by University College London [UCL]: "Excavations were carried out from 1909-1914. About 3000 tombs and a great quantity of settlement debris were found. These remains indicate a perhaps only visited seasonally population focus (maybe nomads - till about 500 BC). There is evidence for domesticated cattle. There are some datable finds suggesting that the settlement later became permanent and flourished around 500 to 100 BC. These datable finds are mainly objects imported from the Napatan/Meroe empire. At present it is not clear whether Jebel Moya was part of the empire or not." http://www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk/nubia/jebelmoya.html [MN 16/02/2009]

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