Gebel Adda (also Jebel Adda) was a mountain and archaeological site on the right bank of the Nubian Nile in what is now southern Egypt. The settlement on its crest was continuously inhabited from the late Meroitic period (2nd century AD–4th century) to the Ottoman period, when it was abandoned by the late 18th century. It reached its greatest prominence in the 14th and 15th centuries, when it seemed to have been the capital of late kingdom of Makuria. The site was superficially excavated by the American Research Center in Egypt just before being flooded by Lake Nasser in the 1960s, with much of the remaining excavated material, now stored in the Royal Ontario Museum in Canada, remaining unpublished. Unearthed were Meroitic inscriptions, Old Nubian documents, a large amount of leatherwork, two palatial structures and several churches, some of them with their paintings still intact. The nearby ancient Egyptian rock temple of Horemheb, also known as temple of Abu Oda, was rescued and relocated.[1]
^Ian Shaw, Robert Jameson (eds.): A Dictionary of Archaeology. Blackwell Publishers, Oxford 2002, p. 249, ISBN 0-631-23583-3.
GebelAdda (also Jebel Adda) was a mountain and archaeological site on the right bank of the Nubian Nile in what is now southern Egypt. The settlement...
territories, including Dongola. The last recorded king, probably residing in GebelAdda, lived in the late 15th century. Makuria had finally disappeared by the...
of people living outside the Meroitic state. A Meroitic stele found at GebelAdda from around 300 AD, however, seems to mention a king bearing the Nubian...
Painting of Christ on the ceiling of the converted Temple of Abu Oda near GebelAdda Nothing is known about the organization of the Nobatian army. Many of...
and Darfur. In 1365 a civil war forced the Makurian court to flee to GebelAdda in Lower Nubia, while Dongola was destroyed and left to the Arabs. Afterwards...
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and Darfur. In 1365 a civil war forced the Makurian court to flee to GebelAdda in Lower Nubia, while Dongola was destroyed and left to the Arabs. Afterwards...
Mashkouda or Shekanda. The Mamluks defeated the Nubians in three battles at GebelAdda, Meinarti and finally at the Battle of Dongola. David fled upstream the...
Vincent W. J. (2020). "An Old Nubian Lunary with a Greek Addition from GebelAdda". Le Muséon. 133 (1–2): 13–30. doi:10.2143/MUS.133.1.3287659. Means, Laurel...
language was published posthumously in "The Meroitic Inscriptions from GebelAdda", The Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities in...
Ibrim, while a comparable, but more fragmentary piece was discovered at GebelAdda. However, this breastplate was made of reptile hide, possibly from a crocodile...
court to move to Daw, which some modern scholars believed to be modern GebelAdda, in 1364/65. Under the first etymology of the term "Dotawo" discussed...
University of Cairo at Aniba. One campaign by the University of Alexandria at GebelAdda. Eight excavation campaigns by the Antiquities Service on various sites...
National Museum of Sudan. Bishop Petros, Christian Nubia The Relief of Gebel Sheikh Suleiman probably shows the victory of an early Pharaoh, possibly...
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