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Lampstand
Not on view
The Kingdom of Aksum (Ethiopia) possibly conquered Meroë around 350. Still, Nubians maintained contact with the early Byzantine world. Thousands of metal objects with Hellenistic themes have been found at late antique Nubian burial sites. The lampstand of Apollo juxtaposes symbols popular in Egyptian and Hellenistic art and was found in a royal tomb in Qustul. Recent research in Sudan has revealed extensive iron mining in the region through the sixth century and established that metalworking was an indigenous Nubian trade.
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