A King at Work: What Qashqash's Letter Reveals About Old Dongola
Landscape with graves and ruins at Old Dongola, 18 March 2017. Context photograph; it does not show Qashqash’s letter or identify the House of the Mekk. Photograph: Hans Birger Nilsen. Source · CC BY-SA 2.0. Resized and recompressed without cropping or colour changes. A king needs someone to collect a ewe and her offspring. He needs goods handed over to the right people, and he wants the matter completed promptly. Across a small sheet of paper from Old Dongola, authority appears as a chain of practical instructions: receive, give, collect, deliver. ...