Historical dictionary of ancient and medieval Nubia [[electronic resource] /] / Richard A. Lobban, Jr

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910778407103321
• Autore: Lobban Richard Andrew <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Lanham, Md., : Scarecrow Press, c2004
• ISBN: 1-282-52076-8; 9786612520761; 0-8108-6578-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (586 p.)
• Collana: Historical dictionaries of ancient civilizations and historical eras ; ; no. 10
• Disciplina: 939/.78/003
• Soggetti: Nubia History Dictionaries; Nubia History Bibliography
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-509) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Editor's Foreword; Acknowledgments; Preface; Spelling and Alphabetical Conventions; Maps; Chronology; Introduction; Illustrations; The Dictionary; Appendix; Appendix I: Main Language GroupsAssociated with Ancient Nubia; Appendix II: New Kingdom Viceroys of Nubia1; Appendix III: Proposed Reconstructionof Kinship in the 25th Dynasty; Appendix IV: 25th Dynasty Dynamics; Appendix V: Near Eastern Dynastiesin the Ninth to Seventh Centuries BCE; Appendix VI: The Salvage ofAncient Nubian Temples in Egypt; Appendix VII: The Salvageof Ancient Nubian Temples in Sudan; Appendix VIII: Implicationsof the High Dam at AswanAppendix IX: Table ofMeroitic Hieroglyphs and Cursive; Bibliography; INTRODUCTION; GENERAL OR SURVEY REFERENCES; II. BIBLIOGRAPHIES; III. PREHISTORIC AND EARLYNEOLITHIC TIMES (SEE ALSO SEC. IV); IV. A-GROUP, C-GROUP, AND RELATIONS WITHDYNASTIC EGYPT (SEE ALSO SECTIONS V AND VII); V. KERMA (YAM); VI. 25TH DYNASTY AND EARLY NAPATAN TIMES; VII. LATE NAPATAN AND MEROITIC TIMES; VIII. GRECO-ROMAN TIMES (SEE ALSO SECS. XV AND XVI); IX. POST-MEROITIC TIMES (SEE ALSO SECS. IV AND X); X. CHRISTIAN AND MEDIEVAL NUBIA; XI. EARLY TRAVELERS; XII. ARABIC SOURCESXIII. M.A. THESES, PH.D. DISSERTATIONS,AND ; RELATED PUBLICATIONS; XIV. CHILDREN'S AND SPECIALTY BOOKS AND FILMS; XV. MODERN NUBIAN SALVAGE ANDRELOCATION (LOW DAM AND HIGH DAM); XVI. MUSEUMS AND ARCHIVES; XVII. GEOLOGY OF NUBIA AND SUDAN; XVIII. LANGUAGE (SEE ALSO SEC. VII); XIX. MODERN NUBIAN REGION ETHNOGRAPHY; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: TheHistorical Dictionary of Ancient and Medieval Nubiacovers the period of Nubian history from the Paleolithic to the end of Medieval Christianity. It includes the rapidly expanding field of Nubian archaeology that centers ancient African history along the Nile but beyond the better-known field of Egyptology.