Kush: Ancient Sudan. Made this open access for Women's history month, even though every month is #WHM. From Khartoum Neolithic to female icons at Kadruka & el-Kadada to the Kerma culture. Black-on-red pots, a pattern shared with late neolithic Egypt. >
Ivory hippo women, with the same curved knife and crocodile teeth as Kemetic Taweret. Egyptian New Kingdom conquest, and Nubian tribute scenes in murals, with this lady in ostrich feather mega-crown, and captive commoners. The Napatan realm & founders of Egyptian 25th dynasty >
Women of Kushan line: priestesses, queens. Pyramids at Nuri and their treasures. Queen Qalhata at el-Kurri. Auset and Nebthet hold up their red belts. Rock-cut temple of El-Kurru. Matrilineal succession recorded on the Aspelta stela: seven generations of female ancestors. >
Nubian high priestesses at Thebes, Amenirdas I and her successors. Faience winged goddess amulets. The massive temple complex at Mussawarat-es-Sufra, its megalithic elephants and fat carved pillars. >
Priestess queens. The kadake / kandakes. Mural relief of kadake Nawidemek Naldamak (shown) and Nahirqa. Amanishakheto and her gold regalia. Theme of goddess protecting the queens, breaking from the Egyptian pattern. >
Statues of Meroitic queens. Isis & Maat in gold and stone. Amanirenas defeats the Roman legions. Ba-statues, Kushan style. Meroitic scripts, syllabary, stone inscriptions and libation tables. Ceramics painted with Ankh, snakes, frogs, animals. Merotic weaving & glasswork. >
Byzantine conquest. The Bejas make a last stand for Isis, are driven into the eastern desert. Early medieval Nubian kingdoms, christianized but hang on to matrilineage up to 1100, even 1300. Nubian women’s mural paintings, drumming, ceremony, healing.
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