Abri (Sudan)

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Abri is a small town in the north of Sudan in the state of al- Schamaliyya on the right, the eastern bank of the Nile.

Geography

Abri is located a few kilometers south of the Dalkatarakts in belonging to Nubia part of Sudan, approximately 700 kilometers by road north of Khartoum. The nearest major settlements are Kerma, 170 kilometers to the south, and the equidistant Sudanese border town of Wadi Halfa in the north- east.

A wide strip of fertile arable land is irrigated and date palms in the area of the place of the Nile and distinguishes this area from the northern rocky inhospitable area butn el- Hajar. The small island inhabited Arnata in the middle of the river is accessible by boat. The island of Sai with archaeological remains from the ancient Egyptian time is located ten kilometers south to the 16th century. Kulubnarti is a since early Christian times populated island north of Dalkatarakts. The towering Table Mountain Jebel Abri is seen in the east.

Abri is a small market town with a few shops in the center, a very simple accommodation ( Lokanda ) and a health center. In the catchment area of Abri live about 40,000 people. The weekly market is on Mondays.

In Amir ' Abdallah near Abri a Spanish Archaeological Mission dug under the direction of Victor M. Fernandez 1981 from a small cemetery with graves of the Kerma culture, which are dated to the period between 1800 und 1700/1650 BC. They were found in the north of the local Kushite cemetery. Here, in the nearby Abri- Missiminia and other archaeological sites unternubischen the Fund position resulted in a settlement gap between the Napatan and the Meroitic period, which started from the 3rd century BC. The graves in Missiminia are younger than those of Amir ' Abdallah, they come from the spätmeroitischen time, the 2nd to 4th century AD

On the western bank of the Nile ( Abri West) was the only Greek stone inscription found in Nubia in the 1960s that are not cut, but has worked as a relief and possibly refers to the ancient Syrian influence. It is located in the National Museum Khartoum.