Art Exhibition of the Kingdom of Meroe in the Louvre

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The exhibition at the Louvre devoted to the kingdom of Meroe, located in the upper reaches of the Nile, in the modern Sudan, shows the originality of his art, which combines a tradition of Egyptian, African, Greek and Roman culture. In the era of the pharaohs to the region, which the Egyptians called "country of Kush (Nubia), was subservient to Egypt and to pay tribute in gold, ebony, cattle, and warriors.

Terracotta and ceramic intended for burials reveal the syncretism of the culture, which combined the pantheon of Egyptian Amun, Isis, Osiris and Anubis with a local god Apedemakom, represented as a ureusa - cobra with a lion's head, and with the Greek Silenus, Dionysus and Zeus.

In 730 BC, taking advantage of Egypt, the Nubians were freed from the yoke of egopetskogo and even subjected him on kotorky period before the Assyrians expelled them from there. Later, the Romans attempted to conquer Meroe, but without success - in 29 BC Augustus was forced to sign a truce with the queen of Nubia. The end of prosperity and independence of the kingdom of Meroe came in 350 AD, when during the war with Ethiopia, the city was looted and destroyed.

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For six centuries, during its heyday - from 270 BC to 320 AD - it was a powerful state, but meroveyskaya culture still maloizuchena. More than anything known meroyskaya script, which had been used in Egypt, along with the hieroglyphic. Until recently, scientists knew how to pronounce the letters of the alphabet meroyskogo, but the language was nerasshiforvan. Now linguists have managed to draw parallels with certain languages Chvdv and Eritrea, and start translating texts in 2000, found arzheologami.

The exhibition gathered about 200 objects originating from the museum in Khartoum (Sudan), the British Museum, Berlin and Leiden museums, as well as from the collection of the Louvre.

The exhibition will be open until 6 th September 2010

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For six centuries, during its heyday - from 270 BC to 320 AD - it was a powerful state, but meroveyskaya culture still maloizuchena. More than anything known meroyskaya writing, which had been used and in Egypt, along with the hieroglyphic. Until recently, scientists knew how to pronounce the letters of the alphabet meroyskogo, but the language was nerasshiforvan. Now linguists have managed to draw parallels with certain languages Chvdv and Eritrea, and start translating texts in 2000, found arzheologami.

The exhibition gathered about 200 objects originating from the museum in Khartoum (Sudan), the British Museum, Berlin and Leiden museums, as well as from the collection of the Louvre.

The exhibition will be open until 6 th September 2010

[Юрий КОСАГОВСКИЙ]

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