Abri (Sudan)
Coordinates: 20 ° 47 ' N , 30 ° 20' E
Abri ( Arabic عبري) is a small town in northern Sudan in the state of Ash-Shamaliyya on the right, eastern bank of the Nile .
geography
Abri is located a few kilometers south of the Dalkatarakt in the part of Sudan that belongs to Nubia , around 700 kilometers by road north of Khartoum . The next larger settlements are Kerma , 170 kilometers south, and the equally distant Sudanese border town of Wadi Halfa in the northeast.
A wide strip of fertile farmland and date palms is irrigated from the Nile in the area of the village and distinguishes this area from the inhospitable rocky area of Butn el-Hajar to the north . The inhabited small island of Arnata in the middle of the river can be reached by boat. The island of Sai with archaeological remains from the ancient Egyptian period to the 16th century is ten kilometers south. Kulubnarti is an island north of the Dalkatarakts, inhabited since early Christian times. The steep table mountain Jebel Abri can be seen in the east.
Abri is a small market town with a few shops in the center, very basic accommodation (lokanda) and a health center. Around 40,000 people live in the catchment area of Abri. The weekly market is on Mondays.
In Amir 'Abdallah near Abri, a Spanish archaeological mission headed by Victor M. Fernandez excavated a small cemetery in 1981 with graves from the Kerma culture, dating from 1800 to 1700/1650 BC. To be dated. They were found in the north of the local Kushite cemetery. Here, in the nearby Abri-Missiminia and at other sub-nubian excavation sites, the location revealed a settlement gap between the Napatan and Meroitic periods, which began in the 3rd century BC. Began. The graves in Missiminia are younger than those of Amir 'Abdallah, they date from the late Meroite period, the 2nd to 4th centuries AD.
On the western bank of the Nile (Abri West) , the only Greek stone inscription in Nubia was found in the 1960s that is not incised, but worked as a relief and possibly refers to ancient Syrian influence. It is located in the National Museum of Khartoum .
Individual evidence
- ^ Power Generation for a Diagnostic Laboratory and Patient Room in Abri, Sudan. (PDF; 2.1 MB) Final Report. Washington State University, March 27, 2007, accessed October 15, 2013 .
- ^ Victor M. Fernandez: A New Kerma Site in Abri (Northern Prov. Sudan). In: Martin Krause (Ed.): Nubian Studies. Heidelberg, April 22-25 September 1982 (= conference files of the 5th International Conference of the International Society for Nubian Studies. ZDB -ID 1143718-2 ). Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1986, pp. 55-58; Victor M. Fernandez: Early Meroitic in Northern Nubia. In: Martin Krause (Ed.): Nubian Studies. Heidelberg, April 22-25 September 1982. (= conference files of the 5th International Conference of the International Society for Nubian Studies. ) Philipp von Zabern, Mainz 1986, pp. 59–65.
- ↑ Adam Łajtar: Catalog of the Greek Inscriptions in the Sudan National Museum at Khartoum. (I. Khartoum Greek) (= Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta. Vol. 122). Peeters Publishers, Leuven et al. 2003, ISBN 90-429-1252-9 , p. 71.