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View full screenTemple statue in sandstone of the Nubian god Arensnuphis: Ancient Nubian, Upper Nubia, Meroe, Meroitic Period, 100 - 50 BC
A.1910.110.36
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Meroe, Upper Nubia, Sudan, Northern Africa
First half 1st century BC
Meroitic Period, Ancient Nubian
Sandstone
Meroe, Upper Nubia, Sudan, Northern Africa
Grand Gallery (29 Jul 2011)
National Museum of Scotland
Garstang, John (1911), ‘Meroë: The City of the Ethiopians’ (Oxford: Clarendon Press), pp. 17-19, pl. XV - XVIII
PM VII, 235
Shinnie, P. L. (1967), Meroe, a civilization of Sudan (London/New York: Thames and Hudson)
Wenig, Steffen, ‘Arensnuphis und Sebiumeker: Bemerkungen zu zwei in Meroe verehrten Göttern’, Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 101 (1974), pp. 130-50, pls. 4-9
Wenig, Steffen (1978), ‘Africa in antiquity: the arts of ancient Nubia and the Sudan, Vol. II’ (New York: Brooklyn Museum), p. 85
Török, László (1997), ‘Meroe City, An Ancient African Capital: John Garstang’s Excavations in the Sudan’ (London: Egypt Exploration Society), pp. 170-73, figs. 1, 28
Török, László (2011) Hellenizing Art, pl. 84
Bagh, T (2015) Finds from J. Garstang’s Excavations in Meroe and F. Ll. Griffith’s in Kawa, Sudan, in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, pp.24-26, 40-41
Rondot, Vincent (2018), Permanence of representations of interpretation of models and selective imagery in the figurative sources of the kingdom of Meroe: Prolegomena to the Reperatoire of Meroitic Iconography, cat. no. GS 32/6
Yellin, Janice (2020), 'Prolegomena to Meroitic Art' in Emberling, Geoff and Williams, Bruce (eds.) Handbook of Ancient Nubia (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 605-552, see p. 642, pl. 31.17a.
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