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Green lettering refers to Nubian Language groupings after Greenberg in B.G. Trigger, `The Classification of Meroitic: Geographical Considerations', p. 421ff.

For images of Berenice Penchrysos see Egyptian Archaeology, 1994, p. 19-22.

For images of the constructions of the Nubian (25th Dyn) at Meroe, Naqa and Musawwarat, see KMT, Vol. 17, No. 1, Spring, 2006, p. 65ff.

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Egypt's Emerald Region To learn more about the emerald mines of the eastern desert see Jean-Louis Rivard, Brandon C. Foster & Steven E. Sidebotham, `Emerald City' in Archaeology, May/Jun 2002, p. 36-41. Featuring a small map, an anciently painted portrait of a Roman woman wearing an emerald necklace and earrings. A color photo of old buildings at Sikait/Bendar el Kabir and a view of the Wadi, the condition of a sun disk with flanking cobras, and French made drawings of two temples of the time of Frederic Cailliaud from ca. 1817.
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