Pakhoras

E585879

ancient city archaeological site

Pakhoras is the ancient name of Faras, a significant archaeological and historical site in Nubia known for its medieval Christian cathedral and wall paintings.

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Label	Occurrences
Pakhoras canonical	1

Statements (41)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient city ⓘ archaeological site ⓘ
affectedBy	construction of the Aswan High Dam ⓘ
artStyle	Byzantine-influenced Christian iconography ⓘ
associatedWith	Christian Nubian art ⓘ
cathedralPaintingsRelocatedTo	National Museum in Khartoum NERFINISHED ⓘ National Museum in Warsaw NERFINISHED ⓘ
culture	Nubian NERFINISHED ⓘ
excavatedBy	Polish archaeological mission ⓘ
excavationsBeganIn	1960 ⓘ
hasArchaeologicalRemains	cathedral foundations ⓘ cemeteries ⓘ churches ⓘ fortifications ⓘ
hasFeature	cathedral apse with painted program ⓘ painted portraits of bishops ⓘ painted representations of saints ⓘ
hasModernName	Faras NERFINISHED ⓘ
hasPeriod	Late Antiquity NERFINISHED ⓘ medieval period ⓘ
hasTypeSiteFor	Faras School of Nubian painting NERFINISHED ⓘ
historicalRole	ecclesiastical center of Christian Nubia ⓘ
knownFor	Christian murals ⓘ medieval Christian cathedral ⓘ wall paintings ⓘ
languageEvidence	Coptic inscriptions ⓘ Greek inscriptions ⓘ Old Nubian inscriptions ⓘ
locatedIn	Lower Nubia NERFINISHED ⓘ Nubia NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedInPresentDay	Sudan NERFINISHED ⓘ
nearbyModernSettlement	Faras NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Kingdom of Nobadia NERFINISHED ⓘ medieval Christian Nubia ⓘ
region	Northern Sudan NERFINISHED ⓘ
religion	Christianity ⓘ
situatedOn	Nile River NERFINISHED ⓘ
submergedBy	Lake Nasser NERFINISHED ⓘ
timeDepth	Late Roman period ⓘ medieval period ⓘ
UNESCOCampaign	International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia NERFINISHED ⓘ

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Instruction

You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10.

# Requirements
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- If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list.
- Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf".
- Do not get too wordy.
- Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.

Input

Subject: Pakhoras
Description of subject: Pakhoras is the ancient name of Faras, a significant archaeological and historical site in Nubia known for its medieval Christian cathedral and wall paintings.

Referenced by (1)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Faras → alternativeName → Pakhoras ⓘ