Graffiti as devotion along the Nile and beyond

Graffiti unsanctioned marks in public built spaces are increasingly recognized as worthy of study in contexts both ancient and modern. For ancient societies, graffiti are personal expressions that are otherwise rare in the archaeological and historical record. This volume is focused around a group of ancient and medieval figural graffiti found in 2015 by an archaeological project of the Kelsey Museum, University of Michigan, at the site of El-Kurru. Located in northern Sudan, El-Kurru was a royal pyramid burial ground of kings and queens of Kush from about 850 to 650 BCE. Written in conjunction with the exhibition 'Graffiti as Devotion along the Nile at the Kelsey Museum', essays by an international group of seven scholars present the site of El-Kurru and its graffiti in historical context.00Exhibition: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, Ann Arbor, USA (23.08.2019-29.03.2020).