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Musawarat

Kushite (Meroitic) · Sudan

Field notes

civilizations: Kushite (Meroitic)
types: Temple
occupied: 300 BCE — 350 CE
country: Sudan

The site

Musawwarat es-Sufra is a large Meroitic temple complex in Sudan, built in sandstone by the Kushite civilization from the 3rd century BCE. Set in a basin ringed by low sandstone hills in the western Butana, its principal features are the Great Enclosure, the Lion Temple of Apedemak, and the Great Reservoir. Numerous carved elephants suggest the animal held a special role here.

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