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]