Qasr Ibrim

The Earlier Medieval Period

by William Y. Adams, contributions by Nettie K. Adams

Book cover: Qasr Ibrim

Extent: 319 pages

Publisher: Egypt Exploration Society

Subjects: Ancient Egypt

Series: Excavation Memoir

Series volume number: 89

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(December 2010)

ISBN: 9780856981913

Price: $39.50

In stock

This volume details the architectural, artifactual, and textual finds from Qasr Ibrim’s earlier medieval period (AD 550-1200). It covers rare materials like wood, leather, textiles, and multilingual texts from this key Nubian site.


Throughout its long history Qasr Ibrim was the most important settlement in Egyptian Nubia. During the Middle Ages is was both an administrative capital and a centre of Christian worship. As an archaeological site it has produced an unprecedented wealth of material, including objects of wood, leather, and textile that are rarely preserved archaeologically. Also preserved are hundreds of specimens of written material in many different languages. This volume describes and illustrates in detail the architectural, artifactual, and textual finds from the earlier medieval period, from about AD 550 to 1200. An earlier volume in the same series (Qasr Ibrim, the Later Medieval Period) describes the remains from the succeeding period.

  • By (author) William Y. Adams
  • Contributions by Nettie K. Adams