ABSTRACT

This paper builds upon the excavation work carried out to date at Jebel Moya, south-central Sudan. It focuses on the surviving figurine assemblage from Wellcome’s excavations (1911–1914), curated at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, and a recently re-discovered Wellcome Collection photographic archive. Too often in Sudan, parallels are drawn between sites far apart, something that is culture-historical in its essence. Drawing upon all extant information on context, the Jebel Moya figurines are examined here as part of the current project’s wider aims of understanding a complex multi-period site. A framework for continuing discussion on figurines that places them firmly within the local population is proposed. This methodology views figurines as objects inhabiting various and different worlds. It is therefore a move away from previous universalist treatments of Sudan north of Khartoum that obscure the role of figurines in local and wider social relations and can be applied at other sites.

摘要

本文以迄今为止在苏丹中南部杰贝尔莫亚进行的挖掘工作为基础。它侧重于来自 Wellcome 的发掘（1911 –1914 年），在剑桥大学考古与人类学博物馆策展，以及最近重新发现的 Wellcome Collection 摄影档案。在苏丹，相距甚远的地点之间经常出现相似之处，这在本质上是文化历史。利用所有现存的背景信息，Jebel Moya 小雕像在这里进行了检查，作为当前项目理解复杂的多时期遗址的更广泛目标的一部分。提出了一个继续讨论小雕像的框架，将它们牢牢地放在当地人口中。这种方法将小雕像视为居住在不同世界中的物体。因此，它摒弃了先前对喀土穆北部苏丹的普遍主义处理方式，这些处理方式掩盖了小雕像在当地和更广泛的社会关系中的作用，并且可以应用于其他地点。