The 13th International Conference for Nubian Studies University of Neuchâtel, Monday 1st to Saturday 6th of September 2014 Abstracts of papers presented at The 13th International Conference for Nubian Studies Edited by Matthieu Honegger 2014 University of Neuchâtel We thank the International Society for Nubian Studies to give the opportunity to organize the 13th International Conference for Nubian Studies at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. This conference is supported by : La Faculté des Lettres et Sciences humains de l’Université de Neuchâtel Le Fonds national Suisse de la recherche scientifique (requête no 10CO11_155027) La Fondation Kerma pour la mise en valeur du patrimoine archéologique nubien L’Institut d’archéologie de l’Université de Neuchâtel La Société des Alumni de l’Université de Neuchâtel (Fonds Jean-Pierre Jéquier) La Maison des Sciences historiques de l’Université de Neuchâtel 2 PROGRAMME OF THE CONFERENCE 3 MAIN SESSIONS - MORNING Monday 1st September Aula des Jeunes Rives 2-5 pm Registration Tuesday 2nd September Aula des Jeunes Rives 8.15-9 am Registration 9-9.30 am Official Opening of the Conference and Welcome Main session 1: From Prehistory to the Kingdom of Kerma (30’ communication followed by 15’ discussion) 9.30-10 am Donatelle Usaï Prehistory in Central Sudan 10.15-10.45 am Maria Carmela Gatto Current Research in the Pre- and Protohistory of Lower and Upper Nubia 11-11.30 am Break 11.30-12 noon Matthieu Honegger New Data on the Origins of Kerma 12.15-12.45 pm Derek Welsby Ancient Kerma Cemeteries. Similarities and Regional Variations 1 pm Lunch (individual arrangement) 2.30-6 pm Parallel Sessions: recent fieldwork and thematic research results 6.30 pm Exhibition on Nubia. Opening Reception at the Latenium Museum Dinner (individual arrangement) Wednesday 3rd September Aula des Jeunes Rives Main session 2: The End of Kerma and the Egyptian Presence (30’ communication and 15’ discussion) 9-9.30 am Neal Spencer Egyptians Settlements in Northern Sudan (Amara West) 9.45-10.15 am Charles Bonnet The Nubian Ceremonial City of Dokki Gel - Kerma and the Menenou of Thutmosis I 10.30-11am Break 11-11.30 am Stuart Tyson Smith Colonial Entanglements. Immigration, Acculturation and Hybridity in New Kingdom Nubia (Tombos) 11.45-12.15 pm Luc Gabolde Insight into the Perception of Royal and Divine Power among Kushites and Egyptians 12.30 pm Lunch (individual arrangement) 2.30-6.30 pm Parallel Sessions: recent fieldwork and thematic research results 7 pm Cocktail at the Palace Du Peyrou Dinner (individual arrangement) 4 Thursday 4th September Aula des Jeunes Rives Main session 3: The Kushite Kingdoms (Napata and Meroe) (30’ communication and 15’ discussion) 9-9.30 am Dietrich Wildung On the Autonomy of Art in Ancient Sudan 9.45-10.15 am László Török The Periods of Kushite History 10.30-11 am Break 11-11.30 am Claude Rilly Fragments of the Meroitic Report of the War between Rome and Meroe 11.45-12.15 pm Irene Vincentelli Long Distance Trade: the Evidence from Sanam 12.30 pm Lunch (individual arrangement) 2.30-6.30 pm Parallel Sessions: recent fieldwork and thematic research results 8 pm Aula des Jeunes Rives: Lecture by Louis Chaix « Une histoire des animaux et des hommes au nord du Soudan » Dinner (individual arrangement) Friday 5th September Aula des Jeunes Rives Main session 4: Medieval and Islamic Periods (30’ communication and 15’ discussion) 9-9.30 am Robin Seignobos Rereading the Oriental Sources: on some unknown or little-known Arabic texts concerning Nubia 9.45-10.15 am Bogdan Żurawski Nubian Fortifications of the Middle Ages lecture by M. Drzewiecki 10.30-11 am Break 11-11.30 am Włodzimierz Godlewski The Makurian Church and its Sacral Architecture 11.45-12.15 pm Intisar el-Zein Islam in the Sudan: between history and archaeology 12.30 pm Lunch (individual arrangement) 2.30-6.00 pm Parallel Sessions: recent fieldwork and thematic research results 7 pm Reception-Cruise on the Lake of Neuchâtel Saturday 6th September Aula des Jeunes Rives Main session 5: The Practice of Archaeology and its Diffusion (30’ communication and 15’ discussion) 9-9.30 am Jean-Paul Demoule Archaeological Research in the XXIst Century 9.45-10.15 am Abdelrahman Ali Mohammed Salvage Archaeology Related to Dams in Sudan: an overview 10.30-11.00 am Break 11-11.30 am Abdulla Al-Najjar and Salah eldin Mohammed Ahmed Qatar-Sudan Archaeological Project (QSAP) 11.45-12.15 pm Vincent Rondot General Meeting of the International Society for Nubian Studies 12.30 pm End of the 13th International Conference for Nubian Studies 5 6 PARALLEL SESSIONS - AFTERNOON 15’ communication and 5’ discussion Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 Session 4 Session 5 Session 6 Tuesday 2nd Prehistory Protohistory Meroe Middle Ages Epigraphy / Linguistic Survey 2:30-6:00 Egyptian & Meroitic Fieldwork 8 papers 7 papers 7 papers 7 papers 8 papers 8 papers Wednesday 3rd Prehistory / Egypt Meroe Middle Ages Epigraphy / Linguistic Survey 2:30-6:00 Protohistory Greek, Nubian & Arabic Fieldwork 7 papers 8 papers 9 papers 8 papers 8 papers 9 papers Thursday 4st Bioanthropology Egypt / Meroe Middle Ages Fortifications Cultural 2:30-6:30 Napata 3 papers Heritage 9 papers 8 papers 9 papers Islam 9 papers 8 papers 6 papers Friday 5st Animal-Man Napata Meroe Meroitic Transcultural Cultural 2:30-6:00 Iconography Approaches Heritage 7 papers 8 papers 7 papers 5 papers 6 papers 6 papers Afternoon break between 3:50 and 4:20 pm 7 TUESDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER PARRALLEL SESSIONS Session 1 Session 2 Session 3 PM PREHISTORY PROTOHISTORY MEROE 2.30 A. NASSR X. DROUX, R. FRIEDMAN M. MAILLOT Acheulean Lithic Technology in the Gebel Sheikh Suleiman Relief The Meroitic Palace and Royal City Sudan from the Jebel ElGrian Site Revisited East of the Lower Atbara River 2.50 M. MASOJĆ H. HAFSAAS-TSAKOS S. SCHELLINGER Palaeolithic in Bayuda Desert Ethnicity, Competition and The Meroitic Palace: developing a Warfare: establishing an ethnic definition from form and function boundary between A-Group and Naqada people in Lower Nubia 3.10 Y. TAHIR H. DELATTRE N. ALZOHARY The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic The Pre-Kerma Site of Sedeinga New light on three statues from the Sites in the El Ga'ab Depression, Barkal Cemetery Western Dongola Reach 3.30 L. SUKOVÁ et al. W. DAUM J.W. YELLIN Prehistoric Research at Jebel The Creation of Man on a Hill Meroitic Chronology in the II-III Sabaloka (West Bank), 2011-2014 Emerging from the Primordial Centuries AD: evidence from the Waters: the origins of the world in royal pyramids of Meroe and Dinka Mythology Barkal 3.50 Break Break Break 4.20 L. VARADZIN, L. SUKOVÁ A. DE SOUZA V. RONDOT, CLAUSTRE, D. Dating and Significance of the The “End” of an Era: a review of Trémaux's Description of Soba's Cemetery at the site of Sphink, Jebel the phasing system for the late C- Ram and its Consequences on the Sabaloka, 6th Nile Cataract Group and Pan Grave cultures Southern Border of the Meroitic Empire 4.40 M. CHŁODNICKI M.-K. SCHROEDER M.F. ALI Stratigraphy of the Neolithic Nubian Pottery Assemblage from The Meroitic State and the Fourth Cemetery at Kadero the C-Group Cemetery HK27C at Cataract environs: regional cultural Hierakonpolis interconnection 5.00 A. FEDLELMULA I. A. AHMED P. WESCHENFELDER Preliminary Investigation of Kerma in Hierakonpolis Linking the Meroitic Hinterland to Prehistoric Potsherds from J. the Capital: an ethno-archeological Kungur in the Upper Blue Nile study of nomad-sedentary interaction 5.20 R. HAALAND Innovation in Pottery: women’s role as the innovators and nurturers. The use of ethnographic material to understand the symbolism of pots and boiled food 8 TUESDAY 2nd SEPTEMBER PARRALLEL SESSIONS Session 4 Session 5 Session 6 PM MIDDLE AGES EPIGRAPHY LINGUISTIC SURVEY FIELDWORK 2.30 Pre- and early Middle Ages Egyptian & Meroitic J. COCKITT et al. T. SAKAMOTO D. VALBELLE All that Remains? A virtual In Search of the Origins of The Contribution of Epigraphic collection for the Archaeological Makuria: Meroitic cemetery 100 at Data to the History of the Site of Survey of Nubia Gammai and its historical Dukki Gel/Pnubs after Twenty background Years of Excavation 2.50 A.O. MOHAMED SALIH L. BONGRANI J. EGER The Discovery of Ezana’s Capital Iwntyw nw T3-Sty: historical Remote Sensing in Sudan: in the Heartland of Meroe documentation possibilities and limitations with examples from the Western Desert and the Wadi Abu Dom 3.10 I. MUSA J. COOPER A. LOHWASSER Iron Technology in the Fortified The African Topographical Lists of Wadi Abu Dom Itinerary city of Mao (Central Darfur) in the the New Kingdom and the (W.A.D.I.) first Millennium AD Historical Geography of Nubia in the Second Millennium BCE 3.30 N.K. ADAMS D. MICHAUX-COLOMBOT C. GRADEL et al. From Cotton fields to Pastures: the The King of Meluḫḫa is not a King Selima Oasis and Darb el-Arbain. transition from cotton to wool of Kush, but probably a Medjay First results of the SOP project clothing in Nubia Chieftain, once again and more about it 3.50 Break Break Break 4.20 Middle Ages A. SPALINGER F.A. MOHAMMED K. DANYS-LASEK Piye/Pianchy: Between two Worlds Rescue Excavation East of Jebal 7th Century Pottery from Old Barkal: results of preliminary Dongola in the Light of Recent reports for seasons 2010/2011/2012 Finds from Palatial Building B.I. 4.40 D. DZIERZBICKA J. POPE B.J. BAKER 7th Century AD Mud Stoppers from The Divine Adoratrice in Aspelta’s The Bioarchaeology of Nubia Old Dongola Genealogy Expedition (BONE) in 2014 and Beyond 5.00 M.J.