This article sets out to address questions concerning local religious traditions in ancient Nubia. Data concerning Egyptian gods in the Sudan are introduced, then the existence of unattested local pre-Meroitic gods is reconstructed using mainly external literary sources and an analysis of divine names. A review of other archaeological evidence from an iconographic point of view is also attempted, concluding with the presentation of Meroitic gods and their relation with earlier traditions. This study proposes that Egyptian religious beliefs were well integrated in both official and popular cults in Nubia. The Egyptian and the Sudanese cultures were constantly in contact in the border area and this nexus eased the transmission of traditions and iconographical elements in a bidirectional way. The Meroitic gods are directly reminiscent of the reconstructed indigenous Kushite pantheon in many aspects, and this fact attests to an attempt by the Meroitic rulers to recover their Nubian cultural identity.

本文着手解决有关古代努比亚当地宗教传统的问题。介绍了有关苏丹埃及神灵的数据，然后主要使用外部文献资料和对神的名字的分析来重建未经证实的当地早先神灵的存在。还试图从肖像学的角度审查其他考古证据，最后提出梅罗伊神灵及其与较早传统的关系。这项研究表明，埃及的宗教信仰在努比亚的官方和大众崇拜中都得到了很好的融合。埃及和苏丹文化在边境地区不断接触，这种联系使双向的传统和图像元素的传播变得容易。