Title on Photograph: THE UPPER NILE, 500 BC-AD 600.
Material: MAP
Comments on Photo: IMAGE FROM: ONIANS, JOHN (2004), ATLAS OF WORLD ART. LAURENCE KING PUBLISHING LTD. MAP 2, PAGE 72.
Comments on Subject: THIS MAP OF THE NILE TO THE SOUTH OF EGYPT SHOWS ACTIVITIES, TOWNS ADN ROAYL PALACES IN THE KINGDOM OF MEROE AND THE SURROUNDING AREA UNTIL JUST AFTER THE ARRIVAL OF CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SIXTH CENTURY AD. IT ALSO SHOWS THE AREA OF THE AXUMITE KINGDOM AND THE MAIN TRADE ROUTES OF THE PERIOD WHICH MADE USE OF THE RED SEA AND WENT VIA THE GULF OF ADEN AS FAR AS INDIA. AEZANES, KING OF AZUM IN C.AD 350, INVADED MEROE AS DESCRIBED IN AN INSCRIPTION IN GREEK IN AXUM. TWO AXUMITE INSCRIPTIONS, AGAIN IN GREEK, AS WELL AS A COIN HAVE ALSO BEEN FOUND AT MEROE.
