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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Djehuti: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by alTakruri: [qb] I'm hoping Bietak is more accurate here than he was about the C-Group. Snippets from his article for Nubia Museum on [i]The Pan Grave Culture[/i][/qb][/QUOTE][i] The carriers of this specific Nubian culture are thought to have been nomads from the Eastern Desert and are identified with the Medjay (later the Bedja) of the Egyptian texts - a designation of the desert Nubians in contrast to the Nehesy-Nubians of the Nile valley. This may be the correct assessment for a part of this population. The Medja land is known, however, since the late Old Kingdom and seems to have been situated near the Nile. Since king [b]Nebhepetre Mentuhotep (c. 2043-1992 BC) of the 11th Dynasty had married, besides other Nubian consorts, a dark skinned princess from Medja with the name Ashait, one may assume that this land was an established kingdom at that time[/b], probably [b]sited near the Kerma kingdom and was absorbed by the latter[/b] during the Middle Kingdom. [URL=http://www]This may have triggered the move of the Pan Grave people to Lower Nubia and Egypt.[/URL] According to both the Semna Despatches, dating from the late twelfth Dynasty (c. 1850-1800 BC), and the name of the 10th Nubian M[iddle] K[ingdom] fortress "Khesef-Medjayu" - "The one which repells the Medjay"- the Egyptian military authorities tried to stop this immigration from the desert, but in vain. Pan Grave cemeteries can be found in Lower Nubia and at many sites in Egypt dating principally from the time of the late Middle Kingdom and early Second Intermediate Period (c. 1800-1600 BC). Normally the cemeteries are small and situated on the fringe of the desert, often in the vicinity of cemeteries belonging to the local population. The most important sites are Deir Rifeh, Mostagedda with the largest cemetery, Qau, Balabish, Hu, Tôd, Daraw, and in Nubia at Shellal, Dakka, Wadi Allâqi, Sayâla, Aniba, Toshka, and at several places between Faras and Gammai. [b]Sherds of this culture have been found at many other sites in Egypt extending as far north as Memphis[/b]. The most distinct cluster is, however, in Middle and Upper Egypt and in Lower Nubia.[/i] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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