Funj-period residential quarter within the city walls:

Deptuła, Agata; Maślak, Szymon

doi:10.2307/j.ctv2crj20b.15

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“…Worthy of note is the lack of narrow back rooms in wattle-and-daub dwellings (Figure 3, Figure 6). However, there are also some departures from this pattern in the case of sun-dried brick houses (e.g., U6 and U5 both lack a narrow storage room (Wyżgoł, 2021b: 46; Deptuła, 2021a: 50)).…”

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“…It can be assumed that the main function of the smallest and unfurnished ones, like in U28b (Figure 6) (Deptuła, 2021b: 203), was to ensure privacy for the larger rooms they preceded. More elaborate examples were equipped with benches and stoves (U72) (Figure 5) (Deptuła, 2021a: 54).…”

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“…Each compound comprised one or more buildings accessible from a courtyard. In this study, we focus on two adjacent zones labelled as 1.1 and 1.6 (Figure 1) (Deptuła, 2021a(Deptuła, , 2021bWyżgoł, 2021bWyżgoł, , 2021cWyżgoł, , 2021d, as it is, so far, only these zones that have yielded house compounds suitable for diachronic analysis. The zones are located on opposite sides of the city wall, 1.6 being outside of it and 1.1 within.…”

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Old Dongola, with a history reaching back to the 5th century AD, was originally the capital of Makuria, one of the three medieval Nubian kingdoms. After the collapse of Makuria, its capital city saw migratory movements and political changes that resulted in the emergence of new power relations. In the 16th and 17th centuries, the city was the seat of a local ruler subordinate to the Funj Sultanate. New communities that emerged in this setting inhabited the city until the colonial era. This paper examines the ways in which Funj-period households, as fundamental social units in Old Dongola, were mutually constitutive with houses, engaging with their spatiality and materiality through social practices. The authors investigate domestic labour, which was an essential factor in the negotiation of social differences and identities within the household. Differences in building techniques are analysed to compare various ways in which dwellers engaged with houses and to assess their implications for social differentiation within the city.

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Section: Dwelling In Old Dongolamentioning

confidence: 99%