Jebel Gule sacred stone

Jebel Gule sacred stone
82 x 82 mm | Lantern slide glass
MountDimension:
82 x 82 mm
Date of Print:
Unknown
Previous Other Number:
V.e.41 (483)


Accession Number:
1967.26.188
Description:
One of the sacred soba stones located on Jebel Gule, associated with the ancestral-mythical figure of Queen Soba. There were several such stones, and this spherical one, around 18 inches in diameter, was used as part of the initiation of new chiefs.
Photographer:
Charles Gabriel Seligman
Date of Photo:
1910 March - April
Region:
Blue Nile Jebel Gule
Group:
Gule
PRM Source:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Acquired:
Donated 1967
Other Owners:
C. G. Seligman slide collection
Class:
Ritual Object
Documentation:
Manual Catalogue in Related Documents File
Primary Documentation:
Accession Book Entry - [1967.26] THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE, HOUGHTON STREET, ALDWYCH, LONDON, W.C.E. PER MR ANTHONY FORGE - SUDAN. Box containing 309 lantern slides (3 1/4” x 3 1/4”) made from photographs taken by the late Professor C. G. SELIGMAN in various parts of the SUDAN. All slides numbered and labelled. Catalogue in file (“Seligman Slide Collection”). Additional Accession Book Entry - [in pencil] 18 Parks Rd.

Manual catalogue entry (thermofax catalogue copy in folder '27-06 Seligman Slide Collection') - "V.e.41. Soba stone"

Note on lantern slide ms ink - "V.e.41. Soba stone. 483."

Other Information:
A very similar photograph of this stone is reproduced as Plate XLV Fig.2 (facing page 428) in C.G. & B. Seligman's Pagan Tribes of the Nilotic Sudan (London, Routledge 1932), with the caption 'Jebel Gule, Soba stone'. [Chris Morton 18/10/2004]
Recorder:
Christopher Morton [18/10/2004] [Southern Sudan Project]
 
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