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Blemyomachia
The Blemyomachia (also spelled Blemmyomachia) is a fragmentary anonymous Greek epic poem on papyrus celebrating a Roman victory over the Blemmyes, doubtfully attributed to Olympiodorus of Thebes.
Hamadab Stela
The Hamadab Stela is a sandstone stela found at Hamadab, south of Meroe in Sudan, bearing one of the longest Meroitic inscriptions, naming Queen Amanirenas and Prince Akinidad.
Jebel Qeili relief
The Jebel Qeili relief, or Jebel Qeili inscription of Shorkaror, is a first-century rock relief in Sudan showing the Meroitic ruler Shorkaror before a solar deity.
Kandake
Kandake, rendered Candace by Greek and Roman writers, is the royal title borne by ruling queens of Meroitic Kush in what is now Sudan, from about 170 BCE into early centuries CE.
Karanog inscriptions
The Karanog inscriptions, also known as the Meroitic inscriptions from Karanog, are funerary texts from Lower Nubia published by Francis Griffith in 1911 after his decipherment of Meroitic.
Kharamadoye inscription
The Kharamadoye inscription, cataloged as REM 0094, is a royal Meroitic text carved in the temple of Mandulis at Kalabsha, Lower Nubia, and the last known Meroitic inscription.
Meroe Head
The Meroe Head is a bronze portrait of Emperor Augustus seized by Kushites around 25/24 BC and buried at Meroë, now in the British Museum.
Meroitic period of Kush
The Meroitic period of Kush, also called the Kushite Dynasty of Meroe, was the final phase of the Kingdom of Kush, centered at Meroe in Sudan from about 300 BCE to 350 CE.
Meroitic script
The Meroitic script is an alphasyllabary used to write the Meroitic language of the Kingdom of Kush in Sudan from about 300 BC to AD 400.
Midob people
The Midob, self-designation Tiddi, are a Nubian-speaking people of the Meidob Hills in North Darfur, western Sudan, centered on Malha, with about 50,000 speakers of their Darfur Nubian language.
Nobatia
Nobatia, also Nobadia, was the northernmost of the three Nubian kingdoms after the fall of Meroe, ruling Lower Nubia from the First to the Third Cataract from about 410 AD.
Phonen letter
The Phonen letter is a fifth-century Greek papyrus letter from Phonen, King of the Blemmyes, to Aburni, King of the Nobades, found at Qasr Ibrim in 1976.
Qasr Ibrim archive
The Qasr Ibrim archive is the body of documents recovered at Qasr Ibrim, a fortress in Lower Nubia, Egypt, occupied from the eleventh century BC to 1812.
Silko inscription
The Silko inscription is a 21-line Greek text at Kalabsha in which King Silko records his victories over the Blemmyes in the 5th century AD.
Stela of Taneyidamani
The Stela of Taneyidamani is a granite-gneiss victory stela of the Kushite king Taneyidamani, found at Jebel Barkal, Sudan, and held by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Treasure of Amanishakheto
The Treasure of Amanishakheto is a hoard of about 240 Meroitic gold jewelry pieces, found in 1834 in Queen Amanishakheto's pyramid at Meroë, Sudan, by Giuseppe Ferlini.
X-Group culture
The X-Group culture, also called the Ballana or Post-Meroitic culture, is the archaeological culture of Lower Nubia between Meroitic rule and Nubia's conversion to Christianity.