Among the Rocks – a first look at medieval Duweishat, from the archive.
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posted on 2015-09-28, 10:27authored byDavid N. Edwards
The Duweishat area of the southern
Batn al
-
Hajar
seems likely to represent
a not atypical rural settlement
landscape of this notoriously rugged
and inhospitable region, and one
almost equidistant (c. 110 km) from
the two major medieval centres of Sai
and Faras.
If the wider region is more
popularly glos
sed as the “Belly of
Stones”, as suggested by Herman Bell,
its Nubian/Nobiin form of
Kídin Tuu
may better be re
presented as ‘among
the rocks’
. I
ts core was the area
between
Saras and
Kidin Kony (‘the
upstream end of the rocks’) in Sonki
(Bell 1970: 44
-
46)
, with Duweishat
very much in its belly. Such a name
does not misrepresent this area
, far, in
many ways from Old Dongola, the site
of so much of
Włod
ek
Godlewski
’s
varied research at the heart of medieval
Makuria
. [Opening paragraph]
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Citation
Edwards, DN, Among the Rocks – a first look at medieval Duweishat, from the archive., 'Aegyptus et Nubia Christiana.', Polish Centre of Mediterranean Archaeology, Warsaw
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