Karanog

Karanog (Meroitic: Nalote) was a Kushite town in Lower Nubia on the west bank of the Nile (near Qasr Ibrim).

By the second century AD, it was of strategic significance on Kush's northern frontier with Rome, facing Egyptian Maharraqa.

The original provincial capital had been at Faras, but it was transferred downstream as the Roman presence in the south of Egypt, the Dodecaschoenus, weakened.

The distribution of grave goods shows a high level of social stratification, although the cemetery was extensively plundered over the years.

Some of the less plundered graves contain luxury items, including jewellery; bronze utensils, bowls and lamps; glass beads; iron arrowheads; cotton and linen textiles; carpentry tools; ebony- and ivory-inlaid wooden objects; painted ceramics and even faience.