Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean (16.2004(2005))

MtoM - ZUMA

SUDAN

Meanwhile, the main goal of the first
campaign has been achieved through a study
of grave typology, burial traditions and the
highly distinctive red wheel-made pottery,
namely cups and bowls [Fig. 8 a,If}6 A con-

sideration of these factors has given a date
for the three examined tumuli between the
end of the 5 th century and the first half of
the 6th century AD. The entire cemetery is
most likely from this period as well.




Fig. 8. Red wheel-made bowls and cups from el-Zuma
(Drawing & photo U. Wicenciak)

16 Cf. El-Tayeb, "Excavation at El-Ghaddar", op. cit., 65-82; id., "The Fourth Cataract Archaeological Survey Project,
Kareima-Abu Hamed Section. Comments on the Ceramic Assemblage of the First Season (1996)", Sudan & Nubia 2
(London 1998), 35-41; J. Phillips, M. El-Tayeb, "The pottery assemblage from the Hammur-Abbassyia tumulus field",
in B. Zurawski, Survey and Excavations..., op. cit., 458-62; M. Daszkiewicz et al., "Composition and technology of
pottery from Neolithic to Christian periods from Jebel Ghaddar and from the Karima-Abu Hamed region, Sudan",
Archeologie Du Nil Moyen 9 (Lille 2002), 65-87.

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