DOI Artikel:
Reisner, George Andrew: The archaeological survey of Nubia: progress of survey
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18102#0033
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country was not under Egyptian civil administration; that the popu-
lation gave trouble by raids to the north and was subdued by a
series of military expeditions during the Xllth dynasty. During
the New Empire, our material shows that the country was again
completely under the influence of Egyptian culture, and, except for
slight interruptions, remained under that influence until the Christian
period.
At Bab el-Kalabsha, we come to a natural barrier. To the south,
the preliminary examination has shown a long stretch, comparatively
poor in the alluvial and the spate deposits in which we have been finding
our early cemeteries. W ith the Nile at the level which our excavations
has shown it to have been in the predynastic period, there was probably
at that time little cultivable soil. In the work of the coming year,
therefore, the first question will be : Was Bab el-Kalabsha the limit of
Egyptian culture in the predynastic period? If it was, then we may
hope to gain some insight into the character of the race under whose
influence Lower Nubia fell during the Old Empire.
April 10, 1008.
G. A. Reisner.
country was not under Egyptian civil administration; that the popu-
lation gave trouble by raids to the north and was subdued by a
series of military expeditions during the Xllth dynasty. During
the New Empire, our material shows that the country was again
completely under the influence of Egyptian culture, and, except for
slight interruptions, remained under that influence until the Christian
period.
At Bab el-Kalabsha, we come to a natural barrier. To the south,
the preliminary examination has shown a long stretch, comparatively
poor in the alluvial and the spate deposits in which we have been finding
our early cemeteries. W ith the Nile at the level which our excavations
has shown it to have been in the predynastic period, there was probably
at that time little cultivable soil. In the work of the coming year,
therefore, the first question will be : Was Bab el-Kalabsha the limit of
Egyptian culture in the predynastic period? If it was, then we may
hope to gain some insight into the character of the race under whose
influence Lower Nubia fell during the Old Empire.
April 10, 1008.
G. A. Reisner.