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The Rock Art of Lower Nubia (Czechoslovak Concession)

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2011

Abstract

The present publication completes the catalogue of rock art documented or localised in two sections of the Nile Valley in Lower Nubia during the UNESCO-organised salvage campaign and provides a critical revision of the rock-art data published in Katalog der Felsbilder aus der Tschechoslowakischen Konzession in Nubien (edited by F. Váhala and P. Červíček, Prague 1999).

The resource for the accomplishment of the two objects was the original field documentation gathered by the Czechoslovak expedition and deposited in the archive of the Czech Institute of Egyptology (Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague). With the two objects accomplished, the publication constitutes a kind of manual to the rock-art corpus from the Czechoslovak concession in Lower Nubia and is to be regarded together with Katalog as the complete and authoritative source of data for evaluation of the significance of the evidence from the two sections of the Nile Valley in Lower Nubia.

The publication contains previously unpublished distribution maps (revised and completed), four colour plates with the colour scales used for the recording of patina difference, and a selection of 155 hitherto unpublished black-and-white photographs.