Wrapping Practices in Medieval Sudan: Case Studies from Gebel Adda
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Gebel Adda was located in Lower Nubia, on the eastern bank of the Nile, ca. 300 km south of Aswan. During the medieval period, it was an important administrative centre of the Christian kingdom of Makuria and, in 1365 CE, it became the new royal residence. The site was explored in the 1960ies during the Nubian Campaign, but the excavations have only been partially published. An important part of the archives and most of the textiles (retrieved from burials) are housed today in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Some pieces are also in the collections of the Nubia Museum, Aswan. However, the location of the anthropological documentation remains unknown. This paper offers a tentative reconstruction of the textile layers in four elite burials dated to the 14th c. CE, based on the available archaeological records and archival documentation. It aims at demonstrating the importance of a detailed study of the burials to detect the differences in treatment and installation of the bodies in the crypts and, linking the results of the analysis with the historical context, formulate an hypothesis about the identity of Gapoiapa.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.011 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".