Aniba
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Mam (Miam) Mˁm (Mjˁm) |
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Aniba (ancient Egyptian name: Miam ) was a village in Lower Nubia about 230 km south of Aswan and about 110 km north of the 2nd Nile cataract . The area had a relatively large amount of arable land for Lower Nubia, so that the place was the focus of settlement in Lower Nubia early on.
The few oldest remains belong to the A group . In the Middle Kingdom, one was here Egyptian border fortress erected. In the New Kingdom the place developed into the most important city in Lower Nubia. The temple of Horus of Miam stood here, but only small remains have been found. Extensive necropolises have been excavated outside the city , including the decorated grave of the representative of the viceroy of Kush Pennut ( 20th dynasty ). In the 18th dynasty the Prince of Miam , who was a Nubian vassal prince who probably administered former tribal areas for the Egyptians, also resided here . The viceroy of Kusch also had his official residence here, although the evidence for this is not so clear. Aniba and Sayala are among the few places in Nubia where the C-group fortified settlements have been exposed.
The city appears to be in the early 1st millennium BC. To have been uninhabited, but possibly regained a meaning together with Qasr Ibrim in the Napatean period, which it was to maintain until the Christian period.
literature
- Torgny Säve-Söderbergh: Aniba. In: Wolfgang Helck , Wolfhart Westendorf (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Volume 1: A - Harvest. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1975, ISBN 3-447-01670-1 , Sp. 272-278.
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Remarks
- ↑ foreign language, syllabic notation
- ^ David N. Edwards: The Nubian Past. An Archeology of Sudan. Routledge, London et al. 2004, ISBN 0-415-36987-8 , p. 128.
Coordinates: 22 ° 40 ′ 23 ″ N , 32 ° 0 ′ 47 ″ E