Kanisah Kurgus
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Kanisah Kurgus (also known as Kurgus or Kanisa-Kurgus{{cite book |last1=Kipfer |first1=Barbara Ann |title=Encyclopedic Dictionary of Archaeology |date=29 June 2013 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-1-4757-5133-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BDKqBgAAQBAJ&dq=kurgus&pg=PT561 |language=en}}) is an archaeological site in Sudan, located on the east bank of the Nile between the Fourth and Fifth cataracts, near Abu Hamed.{{cite book |last1=Loktionov |first1=Alexandre |title=Compulsion and Control in Ancient Egypt: Proceedings of the Third Lady Wallis Budge Egyptology Symposium |date=7 December 2023 |publisher=Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |isbn=978-1-80327-586-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HTHoEAAAQBAJ&dq=kurgus&pg=PA104 |access-date=24 March 2024 |language=en}} The area is part of the modern day town Al Kanisah.
The site contains Hagar el-Merwa, an Ancient Egyptian rock art site with inscriptions (boundary stelae) from the reign of Thutmose I and Thutmose III. This site marks the southern border on the Nile of Ancient Egypt during their reigns.{{cite book |last1=Török |first1=László |title=Between Two Worlds: The Frontier Region Between Ancient Nubia and Egypt, 3700 BC-AD 500 |date=2009 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-17197-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=irbP2hHqDAwC&dq=kurgus&pg=PA15 |access-date=24 March 2024 |language=en}} The inscription on the rock reads:{{cite book |last1=Bar |first1=S. |last2=Kahn |first2=D. |last3=Shirley |first3=J. J. |title=Egypt, Canaan and Israel: History, Imperialism, Ideology and Literature: Proceedings of a Conference at the University of Haifa, 3-7 May 2009 |date=9 June 2011 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-21069-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TuN5DwAAQBAJ&dq=kurgus&pg=PA335 |access-date=24 March 2024 |language=en}}
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|text=As for any Nubian who shall transgress (or violate) this stela, which my father Amun has given to me, his chieftains shall be slain, he shall endure in my grasp, the sky shall not rain for him, his cattle shall not calve, there shall be no heir of his on earth.
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Kurgus means "yellow" in modern Nubian, and the name likely refers to the yellow sandstone of the region.