{"id":13228,"date":"2026-01-08T11:14:45","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-marea-locating-a-site-from-the-exhibition-alan-sorrell-nubia-scribe-in-the-house-of-life-hannah-pethen-ph-d\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:14:45","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T11:14:45","slug":"how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-marea-locating-a-site-from-the-exhibition-alan-sorrell-nubia-scribe-in-the-house-of-life-hannah-pethen-ph-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-marea-locating-a-site-from-the-exhibition-alan-sorrell-nubia-scribe-in-the-house-of-life-hannah-pethen-ph-d\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHow do you solve a problem like Marea?\u201d Locating a site from the exhibition, \u2018Alan Sorrell \u2018Nubia\u201d. \u2013 Scribe in the House of Life: Hannah Pethen Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>My <a href=\"https:\/\/hannahpethen.com\/2025\/10\/29\/exhibition-review-alan-sorrell-nubia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last post<\/a> was a review of the excellent and very interesting exhibition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.southendmuseums.co.uk\/exhibitions\/coming-soon...alan-sorrell-&#039;nubia&#039;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Alan Sorrell \u2018Nubia\u2019<\/em> <\/a>at the Beecroft Art Gallery in Southend on sea. The exhibition provided a fascinating look at the archaeological, landscape and life of southern Egypt and norther Sudan, prior to Lake Nasser. Although the accompanying information panels included a wealth of interesting archaeological details I did note one possible misidentification in the paintings.  Painting number 45 shows a place named \u2018Marea\u2019, with vaulted ruins overlooking a watery landscape and a riverbank in the background&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/hannahpethen.com\/2025\/12\/24\/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-marea-locating-a-site-from-the-exhibition-alan-sorrell-nubia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My last post was a review of the excellent and very interesting exhibition Alan&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1141,1206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egypt","category-1206"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arableague.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}