The idea of the Corpus was initially announced in 1994 by Karel Innemée as a “Handlist of Nubian Wall Paintings”. The first volume contained murals from the Central Church at Abdallah-n Irqi from the Dutch excavations during the UNESCO International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia.
The work on the Corpus was continued from 2010 by Alexandros Tsakos and Dobrochna Zielińska under the auspices of the Union Académique International (project no. 40/A). During these years, documentation works were conducted in the following institutions:
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Storerooms:
Sudan National Museum in Khartoum
Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna
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Archives:
Centre for Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Warsaw
National Museum in Warsaw
La Sapienza – Università di Roma and INASA Fondo Monneret de Villard in Rome
The British Museum and Sudan Archaeological Research Society in London
Griffith’s Institute, University of Oxford
Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden
Szépmüvészeti Múzeum in Budapest
Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, University of Chicago
Currently, the Corpus project has evolved into a complex “Space – text – image” project and is under preparation for the final open-access online publication.
We have started publishing the data in the form of an online database.
