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Excavating the shrine, Building A1, probably built by the Kushite king Taharqo who reigned 690-664 BC.
One of two kilns in the lower town at Kawa of a type which is extremely rare in the Nile Valley but can be closely paralleled in the North-Western provinces of the Roman Empire.
Kawa
The Egyptian name of Kawa, Gematon, strongly suggests that it was founded by the pharaoh Akhenaten in the 14th century BC although the earliest structural evidence known from the site is a temple built under Tutankhamun. The town was abandoned probably in the 4th century AD. It was a major urban centre covering approximately 40 hectares with a build-up probably of 11 metres of stratigraphy in the centre of the site. The current project is conducting a detailed contour survey of the town, is excavating and planning buildings, and is investigating the adjacent cemetery.
Select bibliography
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Macadam, M. F. L. 1955. Temples Of Kawa. II. History and Archaeology of the Site. Oxford.
Welsby, D. A. 1993. 'Kawa Survey Project', Sudan Archaeological Research Society Newsletter 3-7.
Welsby, D. A. 1998. 'Survey and Excavations at Kawa, the 1997/8 season', Sudan & Nubia 2, 15-20.
Welsby, D. A. 1999-2002. 'Survey and Excavations At Kawa 1997-1998', Kush18, 183-190.
Welsby, D. A. 2000. 'The Kawa Excavation Project', Sudan & Nubia 4, 5-10.
Welsby, D. A. 2001a. 'An early Kushite shrine at Kawa in northern Sudan', Egyptian Archaeology 19, Autumn, 25-27.
Welsby, D. A. 2001b. 'Excavations within the Pharaonic and Kushite site at Kawa and in its hinterland, 2000-2001', Sudan & Nubia 5, 64-70.
Welsby, D. A. 2001c. 'Kushite buildings at Kawa', British Museum Studies in Ancient Egypt and Sudan 1, 32-45. http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/1d%20Kushite%20buildings.pdf
Welsby, D. A. 2002a. 'Ein Schrein ans frühkuschitischer Zeit in Kawa', Der Antike Sudan 13, 85-91.
Welsby, D. A. 2002b. 'The Kushite Town and Cemetery at Kawa, the 2001-2002 season. Survey and excavations', Sudan & Nubia 6, 32-37.
Welsby, D. A. 2002c. 'Survey and Excavation in Sudan', Archaeology Abroad November, 43-46.
Welsby, D. A. 2006. 'Kawa Kushita e Soba medievale', in A. Castiglioni and A. Castiglioni (eds), Nubia. Magica Terra Millenaria. Firenze, 222-225.
Welsby, D. A. 2008. 'The Northern Dongola Reach Survey. Excavations at Kawa, 2007-8', Sudan & Nubia 12, 34-39.
Welsby, D. A. 2009. 'Houses and Pyramids at Kawa, excavations 2008-9', Sudan & Nubia 13, 72-77.
Welsby, D. A. ‘Excavations at Kawa, 2009-10’, Sudan & Nubia 14, 48-55.
