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The Ninth International Conference for Nubian Studies — Boston 1998

Conferences & papers

Recently, on the occasion of the Tenth Conference for Nubian Studies in Rome (September 2002), Dr. Timothy Kendall published the proceedings of the Ninth Conference (Boston) on the Internet. Therefore, any of the papers summarized below can be consulted in full in English on the Nubian Studies 98 website


1- Lindsay Allson-Jones: Rome and Meroe at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts

2- Yanbin Buryao: Egyptian pottery discovered in ancient and medieval Kerma burials in Kerma

3- Stanley Jurstein: Rome and Kush: a new interpretation

4- Susan Jensicki: A new vision on the cylindrical columns from Nuri, Sudan

5- Elena Garcia: Beyond Napata: Pre-historic evidence in the Napata region

6- Francis Georges: Kerma’s former storage pits on Sai Island

7- Wlodzimierz Godlewski: The Rise of Makuria

8- Brigitte Gratien: Administrative practices and the movement of goods between Egypt and Kush during the Egyptian Middle Kingdom and the Second Intermediate Period.

9- Yohan Halof: Inscriptions of structures in the pyramids of Meroe

10- Matteo Hunger: The site of the pre-Kerma residence in Kerma: new elements for understanding the emergence of the First Nubian Kingdom

11- Birgitte Keding: Current field studies in the areas of the mouth of Wadi Howar, northern Sudan

12- Eleanora Kurmasheva: On the origin of the worship of Amun in Nubia and its development

13- Robert Murcutt: Temples and worship in Kush in the New Kingdom era

14- Hans Aka Nordstrom: The First Nubian Group: Perceiving the Social Landscape

15- Beatrice Privati: Kerma: Classification of pottery from the eastern cemetery

16- Jack Reynolds: The Nubian Neolithic in the Third Cataract: Funerary customs and social structures.

17- Laszlo Torok: The sacred landscape, historical identity and memory. Manifestations of Nabataean and Meroe urban architecture

18- Dominique Valbel: The cultural importance of the iconographic and epigraphic data revealed in the Kingdom of Kerma

19- Janice Yellen: Nabatianism to Meroe: Evolution or Revolution?

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