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Benedictional Cross
Not on view
This Benedictional Cross comes from Qasr Ibrim, a major commercial and ecclesiastical site in late antique and medieval Nubia. It was also a center for pilgrimage, and its bishops were of considerable importance, second in hierarchy only to those of Faras. The site was continuously occupied from at least the Napatan period (700–300 bce) to the early twentieth century.
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