To browse Academia. Skip to main content. You're using an out-of-date version of Internet Explorer. Log In Sign Up. Evidence from the Late Neolithic Site of es-Sour Prolegomena to a History of Meroitic Sculpture A Re-examination Excavations at Banganarti and Selib in Concession in the Fourth Nile Cataract The Evidence of Maps 12thth Century Recent Discoveries of the W. Perspectives for Research in Eastern Sudan Between Kareima and ostrich eggshell and bone , semiprecious stones, metals the village of el-Lamer on the right bank of the Nile, and artificial materials faience, glass.
Evidence for more than 13, beads were recovered mostly associ- the places where beads had been manufactured within ated with burial sites. To date 73 burials with bead orna- the territory of the GAME concession has not yet been ments represent periods from the Kerma Ancien up to discovered and there has not been any technical the Islamic period.
However, the majority of the beads research into methods of manufacture or composition. Although many early Meroitic and some Christian Most of the GAME objects seem to be made of quartz graves were excavated, hardly any of them contained paste faience β a glazed non-clay ceramic material. The personal adornments. In most cases the beads found were associated in drying. This body is coated with a soda-lime-silica- with individuals who had been identified anthropologi- glaze a slurry mixed with water which is commonly cally.
Although often missing their original arrangement a bright blue-green colour due to a copper component we can assume that the beadwork formed necklaces, Nicholson and Peltenburg , The majority of bracelets, anklets etc.
Except for one head circlet, beads the faience beads of Kerma up to the Post-Meroitic date attached to garments have not been noticed. Nevertheless However, some bead cores and surfaces were of a according to anthropological and ethnographical stud- blue-green colour. This suggests that they were glazed ies from around the globe, the use of beads has multiple with an efflorescence technique, by which the glazing meanings: it reflects an access to and distribution of materials are mixed with water and the rest of the raw natural resources as well as familiarity with many shap- material and blended into a paste or slurry and shaped ing technologies.
