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Physical anthropologist, Joyce Filer, at the entrance to a Post-Meroitic tomb. |
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Following on the collapse of the Kushite State during the 4th century AD, after a period of abandonment the cemetery was once again used for burial. These ‘Post-Meroitic’ graves, of which 38 were identified, date between the mid 5th century and the 7th century. By this period all the Kushite tomb monuments must have been in a very ruinous condition and the later burials take no regard of their location. |
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In many of the Post-Meroitic burials the deceased was placed on a bed, an angareeb, a type still used in Sudan today. |
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A leather bag. Owing to its fragile condition it has unfortunately not been possible to examine its contents. |
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Ivory pots of this type were used for kohl, a black pigment used as eye make-up. |
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Team members: Tertia Barnett, Tim Compton, David Edwards (co-director), Adrian England, Fathi Khider, Joyce Filer, Colin Johnson, Michael Mallinson (co-director), Ian Marsden, Pamela Rose, Laurence Smith, Barbara Wills, Pawel Wolf. |
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