{"id":590,"date":"2020-11-13T19:49:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T18:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/tana\/?page_id=590"},"modified":"2021-03-16T10:27:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T09:27:02","slug":"meroe-royal-baths-sudan-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/tana\/meroe-royal-baths-sudan-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Mero\u00eb Royal Baths, Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The ancient city of Mero\u00eb is located 200 km \/ 130 miles north of Khartoum in the Middle Nile Valley. Here the region between the 5th<\/sup> and 6th<\/sup> cataracts from 300 BC to 350 AD has been the heartland of the African empire of Kush. During the centuries around common era building activity flourished at the residential city of Mero\u00eb and at that time also the Royal Baths have been built next to the royal palaces.<\/p>

The building is without parallel in the meroitic empire. It has a water basin of 7\u00a0m by 7\u00a0m and 2.40\u00a0m depth and an exedra with four majestic seats surrounded by a garden with open water channels leading to the basin. In front of a show-wall richly decorated with sandstone sculptures, fa\u00efences and wall paintings and from a column in the centre of the basin water flew into the basin.<\/p>

This unique building is an important testimony for the cultural transfer between the Mediterranean and sub-sahara Africa around common era. Besides the staging of the element water also the images of music, dance, and wine attracted the attention. The representations in part derive from Greek Dionysian motives that are explicitly integrated into indigenous imagination. The ideas are stimulated by contacts of the Meroitic kingdom with their northern neighbours, the Ptolemies at Egypt, the Hasmoneans in the Levant, and the Romans. Thus the Royal Baths stand for gladsome feasts, welfare and fertility being placed under the protection of the gods.<\/p>

Since 1999 the DAI and the Sudanese Antiquities Organisation jointly investigate the complex, the development of the buildings, its features, the water installations, and the significance of the place belonging to the World Heritage. After continuous conservation measures a new protective building to preserve the site and to allow an attractive visit will be erected.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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DAI Berlin Head Office<\/p>

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DAI Berlin Head Office<\/p>\n

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Fig. 1\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>View of the water basin of the Royal Baths with the richly decorated wall [\u00a9 DAI, Mero\u00eb
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Fig. 3\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Design of the new protective shelter for the Royal Baths by K\u00e9r\u00e9 Architecture, 2015 [\u00a9 DAI, Mero\u00eb
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Fig. 4\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Schematic plan of the Royal Baths in Mero\u00eb, 2015 [\u00a9 DAI, Mero\u00eb Royal Baths Project (E. Richter,
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Mero\u00eb Royal Baths, Sudan Fig. 1 | \u00a9 DAI, MRB Fig. 2 | \u00a9 DAI, MRB Fig. 3 | \u00a9 DAI, MRB Previous Next The ancient city of Mero\u00eb is located 200 km \/ 130 miles north of Khartoum in the Middle Nile Valley. Here the region between the 5th and 6th cataracts from 300 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-590","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/tana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/590"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/tana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/tana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/tana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/tana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/tana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1245,"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/tana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/590\/revisions\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dainst.blog\/tana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}