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Bark stand from Wad ban Naga with royal names in Egyptian and Meroitic hieroglyphs

PhotographCC BY-SA 2.0Reign of Natakamani and Amanitore, about AD 1 to 20; from the Isis temple at Wad ban Naga
Bark stand from Wad ban Naga with royal names in Egyptian and Meroitic hieroglyphs:…
Bark stand from Wad ban Naga with royal names in Egyptian and Meroitic hieroglyphs:…
Bark stand from Wad ban Naga with royal names in Egyptian and Meroitic hieroglyphs:…Bark stand from Wad ban Naga with royal names in Egyptian and Meroitic hieroglyphs: photoBark stand from Wad ban Naga with royal names in Egyptian and Meroitic hieroglyphs: photoBark stand from Wad ban Naga with royal names in Egyptian and Meroitic hieroglyphs:…

One of the few bilingual records: the same royal names in both scripts, which let Griffith fix the sign values in 1909. Lepsius brought it to Berlin from the Prussian expedition of the 1840s.

Sven-Steffen Arndt. CC BY-SA 2.0

Copies 6

DrawingLepsius, Denkmäler (reproduced by Griffith 1909) · archive.org · Public domainPrimary source: Meroitic Inscriptions (Chapter IX of Randall-MacIver and Woolley, Areika)2 steps from the original
Bark stand from Wad ban Naga with royal names in Egyptian and Meroitic hieroglyphs:…Sven-Steffen Arndt · commons.wikimedia.org · CC BY-SA 2.01 step from the original
DocumentÄgyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, Berlin · smb.museum-digital.de · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (museum record)1 step from the original
PhotoSven-Steffen Arndt · commons.wikimedia.org · 2008-03-13 · CC BY-SA 2.01 step from the original
PhotoSven-Steffen Arndt · commons.wikimedia.org · 2008-03-13 · CC BY-SA 2.01 step from the original
Bark stand from Wad ban Naga with royal names in Egyptian and Meroitic hieroglyphs:…Sven-Steffen Arndt · commons.wikimedia.org · CC BY-SA 2.01 step from the original

Where it was made

KhartoumKassalaAtbarahAgordat1Wad ban Naga200 kmKhartoumKassalaMedaniAtbarah1200 km
Wad ban Naga · Archaeological site

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