Artefacts from the C Group



Museum History Collections Outdoor museum Visitor info. Activities Nubia Interact Resources	Collections > The C Group The C-Group culture seems to have been a mixture of indigenous Nubian elements and groups of newcomers who migrated to Nubia from the south or south-west. At the beginning they were mainly pastoralists with settlements consisting of round huts enclosed by rubble walls and probably thorn hedges. The C-Group population were probably smaller and more dark skinned than the contemporary Egyptians. This can be seen in the copy of a wooden model of a company of archers from a tomb in Assiut. They may have been employed in the Egyptian army in the Old Kingdom and may have played an important part in wars between the monarchs and in the unification process of Egypt during the First Intermediate Period. During the Egyptian New Kingdom, led by the kings of the 18th Dynasty (1580-1354 BC) the Egyptian re-occupied Nubia. The love for geometric ornamentation, which shows not only on pottery and basketwork, but also on beadwork and body tattoo, can be considered as a specific feature of the C-Group Culture. Bowl, Aniba, Nubia Female figurine, Aniba, Nubia Incised pots, Adidan and Aniba, Nubia