300BC-200AD from karanog -meroitic era, kush

-stelae of a nubian couple; Meteye (white skirt with a swastika) and Abakharta
-offering table with meroitic inscriptions
-ivory and wood casket
painted cup man herding a cow

-Cairo museum
-Penn museum

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representations of the nubian god amun by the 25th dynasty 8th-7th century BC

ram's-head amulets of
-gold
-jasper

-met museum
-Brooklyn museum


the oldest representations of the ram-god amun come from kerma kingdom as one of the native nubian deities of the ram cults

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14th cent.
illuminated manuscript of the four gospels created at a monastic centre in ethiopia



the world's oldest illuminated christian manuscripts were made in ethiopia in the 5th century, christianity became the aksumites' state religion in the 4th cent. under

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16th/17th cent. brass figures from the kongo kingdom

Saint Anthony
crucifix

-met museum


kongo converted to christianity in 1491 making it the 4th christian african kingdom at the time
at the end of the kongo-portugal wars, the upheaval that followed the kongo 1/3

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2019-12-25

Nubian jewelry

Gold ear studs from the meroitic era;
-ear stud with kneeling goddess hathor in typical nubian style; 30AD
-ear stud with the figure of the goddess hathor from the reign of king Aryesbokhe; 215AD

-boston museum of fine arts



the goddess hathor was 1/2

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2019-10-11

(life-size)
14th century brass heads from an ile-ife royal burial

-Museum of Antiquities and Contemporary African Art, nigeria



these are likely depicting lesser known court figures under King Obalufon Alayemore's reign in the 13th century -a key patron of ife arts

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