Anklet

Elliptical-section anklet incised with grid-like geometric patterns, two parallel lines and triangles beside the ends.
This anklet was found alongside a female individual who had been covered with a mat and placed in the pit of a tomb belonging to a man, laid in a wooden coffin.
The museum owns other remarkably similar anklets found at the necropolis of Nag-Shaye in Argin (Sudanese Nubia).
These objects are also pictured on the wall reliefs of temples like that of Apedemak in Naga, a city near the Meroitic capital of Meroe, where different gods in a procession are wearing these objects on their arms and ankles; we even see these bracelets and ankles being worn by the god Anubis on the door jamb of Ntemkher’s tomb at Sedeinga.
This piece was among the approximately three thousand artefacts that the museum received as “partage” in the second half of the 1960s. In 1959 the UNESCO appealed to the international community to help it save as many archaeological sites, monuments and ancient ruins as possible before they were flooded as a result of the construction of the Aswan Dam. Spain answered the call, creating the “Spanish Committee to Save the Monuments of Nubia” and conducting various archaeological excavations in the area. As compensation for this assistance and effort, Egypt and Sudan gave Spain half of the retrieved artefacts.