The Southwest Annex of the Monastery on Kom H in Dongola [Fig. 6.1] has a number of features that indicate a relation with womanhood, including, first of all, the many depictions of the Virgin Mary (Martens-Czarnecka 2011: Cat. Nos 86, 89B, 94, 97, 98, 108). One of them, located on the north wall of room 5, assumes the form of an icon of the…[Read more]

One of the origins of philological thinking in Werner Hamacher’s oeuvre is without a doubt the work of his teacher Paul de Man. In his short text “The Return to Philology,” de Man allies the persistence of close reading and philological techniques in literary departments with the advent of post-structuralism. They share a program of devel…[Read more]

On January 18, 1963, the UCLA excavation uncovered a letter written in Old Nubian. At its present state it preserves the entire height and most probably the entire width. The publication of the letter was entrusted to Sergio Donadoni, but remained in draft form, like the rest of the publication on Askut prepared by Alexander Badawy. Together with…[Read more]

Vincent W.J. van Gerven Oei investigates the politics of Anri Sala’s work and its relation to the legacies of communism.

This article treats a set of subject cross-referencing morphemes in the medieval Nilo-Saharan language Old Nubian, traditionally called “personal endings.” Based on an analysis of their syntactic distribution and morphology, I argue that this set can be best described as a set of subject clitics, originally deriving from phonologically reduced pro…[Read more]