Kerma Museum

Kerma Museum
	The Kerma site museum
Established	2008
Location	Archeological site of Kerma, Sudan
Coordinates	19°36′2.89″N 30°24′35.03″E
Type	Archaeological collection
Website	kerma.ch/en/musee

The Kerma Museum is an archeological site museum located in front of the Western Deffufa on the archaeological site of Kerma, in the Northern State of Sudan. It opened in 2008 and contains many archaeological items removed from the Kerma culture, as well as a section focusing on the Christian and Islamic history of the region.

Architecture

The building of the museum is inspired by the traditional Nubian vaulted roof.

Displays

The museum contains artefacts of the main periods of the Kerma culture: Prehistory, Kingdoms of Kerma, Napata and Meroë.

The highlight of the Kerma Museum are seven black granite statues uncovered in a ditch at the nearby site of Dukki Gel in 2003 by an archaeological team headed by Charles Bonnet. Deliberately broken,[1] but in an excellent state of preservation, in the central room of the Museum are displayed the entirely reassembled statues portraying the so called Nubian Black Pharaohs Taharqa, Tanwetamani, Senkamanisken, Anlamani, and Aspelta, who ruled Egypt in the 25th Dynasty.[2]

Statues of various rulers of the late 25th Dynasty–early Napatan period: Tantamani, Taharqa (rear), Senkamanisken, again Tantamani (rear), Aspelta, Anlamani, again Senkamanisken. Kerma Museum.[3]
Pottery, Kerma Museum, Kerma, Sudan

References

The finding of the statue cache in 2003
Web site of the Kerma Museum
Elshazly, Hesham. "Kerma and the royal cache". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)

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[1] The finding of the statue cache in 2003

[2] Web site of the Kerma Museum

[3] Elshazly, Hesham. "Kerma and the royal cache". Cite journal requires |journal= (help)