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Fig. 8. Temple at Soniyat. Vertical air photograph taken from the site.
Phot, by B. Zurawski.

Just at the close of the survey, a Late Christian jar was
brought by a Soniyat villager named Djadu Ali Ahmed. The jar
(fig. 5) was said to have been exposed by winds on the outer
perimeter of a Christian kom, a hundred metres away from the
temple. The jar was registered as a find and taken to the SNCAM in
Khartoum.
The discovery of the Soniyat temple (or temples) weakens the
arguments in favor of the theory that the Egyptians and the
Kushites controlled the Nile Valley well into the Northern Dongola
Reach and occupied Napata but not the area in between.
It definitely proves that the confluence of the Wadi el-Melik and

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