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MEROBAUDES, FLAVIUS (5th century A.D.)

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MEROBAUDES, FLAVIUS (5th See also:century A.D.) , Latin rhetorician and poet, probably a native of Baetica in See also:Spain. He was the See also:official See also:laureate of Valentinian III. and See also:Aetius. Till the beginning of the 19th century he was known only from the See also:notice of him in the See also:Chronicle (See also:year 443) of his contemporary Idacius, where he is praised as a poet and orator, and mention is made of statues set up in his See also:honour. In 1813 the See also:base of a statue was discovered at See also:Rome, with a Iong inscription belong- See also:ing to the year 435 (C.I.L. vi. 1724) upon Flavius Merobaudes, celebrating his merits as See also:warrior and poet. Ten years later, See also:Niebuhr discovered some Latin verses on a See also:palimpsest in the monastery of St See also:Gall, the authorship of which was traced to Merobaudes, owing to the See also:great similarity of the See also:language in the See also:prose See also:preface to that of the inscription. Formerly the only piece known under the name of Merobaudes was a See also:short poem (30 hexameters) De Christo, attributed to him by one MS., to Claudian by another; but See also:Ebert is inclined to dispute the claim of Merobaudes to be considered either the author of the De many plans, sketches and copies, besides actual antiquities, to See also:Berlin. Further excavations were carried on by E. W. Budge in the years 1902 and 1905, the results of which are recorded in his See also:work, The See also:Egyptian See also:Sudan: its See also:History and Monuments (See also:London, 1907). Troops were furnished by See also:Sir Reginald See also:Wingate, See also:governor of the Sudan, who made paths to and between the pyramids, and sank shafts, &c. It was found that the pyramids were regularly built over sepulchral See also:chambers, containing the remains of bodies either burned or buried without being mummified.

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objects found were the reliefs on the See also:chapel walls, already described by See also:Lepsius, and containing the names with representations of queens and some See also:kings, with some chapters of the See also:Book of the Dead; some steles with See also:inscriptions in the Meroitic language, and some vessels of See also:metal and earthenware. The best of the reliefs were taken down See also:stone by stone in 1905, and set up partly in the See also:British Museum and partly in the museum at See also:Khartum. In 1910, in consequence of a. See also:report by See also:Professor See also:Sayce, excavations were commenced in the mounds of the See also:town and the See also:necropolis by J. Garstang on behalf of the university of See also:Liverpool, and the ruins of a See also:palace and several temples were discovered, built by the Meroite kings. (See further See also:ETHioPIA.) Meroe was probably also an alternative name for the See also:city of Napata, the See also:ancient See also:capital of Ethiopia, built at the See also:foot of See also:Jebel Barkal. The site of Napata is indicated. by the villages of Sanam See also:Abu Dom on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Nile and Old Merawi on the right bank of the See also:river. New Merawi, I m. See also:east of Sanam Abu Dom and on the same See also:side of the river, was founded by the Sudan See also:government in 1905 and made the capital of the mudiria of See also:Dongola. (D. S.

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