I would like to express here my sincere and utmost gratitude to the following persons and institutions, without whose help and support I would not be able to get this far:
Faculty of Archaeology, University of Warsaw
Raphael Taubenschlag Foundation, Warsaw
former Faculty of History, University of Warsaw
Exchange Programme between the New Member States of the EU and Switzerland (Sciex-NMSch), project code: 11.239, project title: LangNub: Languages and literacy in Christian Nubia
National Science Centre, Poland, project no. 2015/17/D/HS3/00372 in Sonata 9 programme, project title: ‘What’s in a name?’ A study on the onomastics of Christian Nubia
European Union’s Research Executive Agency, project no. 842112 in Marie Curie Skłodowska Actions programme, project title: IaM NUBIAN. Identity and Memory in Christian Nubia: A study on strategies of (self-)presentation and preservation of the past in medieval African society
Mark Depauw, Yanne Broux, and Herbert Verreth, KU Leuven and Trismegistos.org
Philippe Collombert and Nathalie Bosson, Université de Génève