statuette of a bound prisoner, around 50-1 BC inscribed with Meroitic text that says, ‘This is the king of the Nubians’. He has characteristic Nubian features and is shown naked and bound. The Kushites typically represented their defeated enemies in this

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Keywords: 50-1, ancient, archival, archive, bc, bound, captive, defeated, egypt, enemies, historical, history, inscribed, king, kushites, meroitic, nubia, nubians, prisoner, statuette, sudan., text