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Stone Carving and Sculpture

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• Berchem, Max van. "Note dur les inscriptions lithiques rapportées par la Mission de Gironcourt," in Missions de Gironcourt en Afrique occidentale, 1908/1909 - 1911/1912: documents scientifiques, pp. 355-356. Paris, Société de Géographie, 1920.
• Bonnet, Charles and Dominique Valbelle. The Nubian Pharoahs: Black Kings on the Nile. Cairo and New York: The American University in Cairo Press, 2006. [Reviewed by Pascal James Imperato in African Studies Review 51, no. 1 (April 2008): 192-193.]
• Boud'hors, Anne and Gilbert-Robert Delahaye. "Nouvel exemple d'une pierre d'autel remployée: la stèle de Dorotheos," in Etudes coptes X Douzième journée d'études (Lyon, 19021 mai 2005) edited by Anne Boud'hors and Catherine Louis, pp. 103-122. Cahiers de la bibliothèque copte 16. Paris: De Boccard, 2008.
• Colburn, Henry P. "Roman Collecting and the Biographies of Egyptian Late Period Statues." World Archaeology 48, no. 2 Collection (2016): pp. 226-238.
• Farias, Paulo Fernando de Moraes. Arabic Medieval Inscriptions from the Republic of Mali: Epigraphy, Chronicles and Songhay-Tuāreg History. Fontes historiae Africanae N.S. 4. Oxford & New York: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2003. [Review by Bernard Salvaing available online in Journal des africanistes 76, no. 1 (2006): pp. 255-258.]
• Farias, Paulo Fernando de Moraes. "Du nouveau sur les stèles de Gao: les épitaphes du prince Yama Kuri et du roi F.n.da (XIIIe siècle)." Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire Ser. B, 36, no. 3 (July 1974): pp. 511-524.
• Frankfurter, David. "The Binding of Antelopes: A Coptic Frieze and its Egyptian Religious Context." Journal of Near Eastern Studies 63, no. 2 (April 2004): 97-109.
• Gironcourt, Georges R. de. "Les inscriptions lithiques du Niger et de l'Adrar," in Missions de Gironcourt en Afrique occidentale, 1908/1909 - 1911/1912: documents scientifiques, pp. 294-354. Paris, Société de Géographie, 1920.
• Gironcourt, Georges R. de. "La nécropole de Bentia: inscriptions et traditions," in Missions de Gironcourt en Afrique occidentale, 1908/1909 - 1911/1912: documents scientifiques, pp. 31-39. Paris, Société de Géographie, 1920.
• Gordon, G. B. "Arabic Art." The Museum Journal (Philadelphia) 13, no. 1 (March 1922): pp. 9-31.
• Henshilwood, Chrisopher S., Frencesco d’Errico, and Ian Watts. “Engraved Ochres from the Middle Stone Age levels at Blombos Cave, South Africa.”  Journal of Human Evolution 57 2009): pp. 27-47.
• Henze, Paul B. "Oromo Tomb Architecture and Art" in Aspects of Ethiopian Art: From Ancient Axum to the 20th Century. edited by Paul B. Henze, pp. 120-125. London: Jed Press, 1993.
• Irving, Celia Winter. Pieces of Time: An Anthology of Articles on Zimbabwe's Stone Sculpture. Zimbabwe: Mambo Press, 2005.
• Jérémine, E. "Étude des statuettes kissiennes au point de vue minéralogique et pétrographique." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 15 (1945): pp. 3-14.
• Joseph, Marietta B. "Tikar Stones." African Arts 8, no. 2 (Winter 1975): pp. 22-27, 79-80.
• Lauwe, Paul-Henry de. "Pierres et poteries sacrées du Mandara, Cameroun Nord (Mission Sahara-Cameroun)." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 7, no. 1 (1937): pp. 53-68.
• Monod, Théodore. "Une découverte au Soudan." Notes africaines 5 (1 Trimestre 1940): p. 2.
• Pils, Marcus. "Beyond Fatimid: The Iconography of Medieval Islamic Rock Crystal Vessels and the Question of Dating," in Seeking Transparency: Rock Crystals Across the Medieval Mediterranean edited by Cynthia Hahn and Avinoam Shalem, pp. 169-181. Berlin: Gebr. Mann Verlag, 2020.
• Pogoson, Ohioma Ifounu. The Aberrant Esie Head as Model: An Insight into the Styles and Origin of the Esie Stone Carvings. Unpublished paper, ca. 1990-1995.
• Roset, Jean-Pierre. "Deux objets à suspendre de l'Aïr oriental (Niger)." Cahiers ORSTOM, série Sciences Humaines 14, no. 3 (1977): pp. 331-336.
• Sauvaget, J. "Les Epitaphes royales de Gao." Al-Andalus 14, no. 1 (Jan. 1949): pp 123-141.
• Sauvaget, J. "Les Epitaphes royales de Gao." Bulletin de l'Institut Français de l'Afrique Noire 12, no. 2 (April 1950): pp 418-440.
• Sauvaget, J. "Note préliminaires sur les épitaphes royales de Gao.” Revue des études islamiques 1 (1948): pp. 5-12.
• Scholz, Piotr. "Bemerkungen zur Ikonologie der sog: 'Vier apokalyptischen Wesen' an dem Steinaltar der Dreifaltigkeitskapelle zu Lalibela," in Proceedings of the First International Conference on the History of Ethiopian Art: Sponsored by the Royal Asiatic Society: Held at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, October 21 and 22, 1986, pp. 23-29. London: The Pindar Press, 1989.
• Shalem, Avinoam. “Fountains of Light: The Meaning of Medieval Islamic Rock Crystal Lamps.” Muqarnas 11 (1994): 1-11.
• Tagliaferri, Aldo. "Sculture in pietra della Sierra Leone, della Guinea e della Liberia: Alcune questioni di metodo," in Dall'archeologia all'arte tradizionale africana/De l'archéologie à l'art traditionnel africain/From Archaeology to Traditonal African Art: A cura di Gigi Pezzoli, pp. 119-128. Milano: Centro Studi Archeologia Africana, 1992.
• Van Damme, Annemieke. "A propos de huit sculptures en pierre découvertes en territoire loma." Arts d'Afrique noire 79 (Autumn 1991): pp. 19-29.
• Viré, Marie-Madeleine. "Notes sur trois épitaphes royales de Gao." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire Ser. B, 20, no. 3-4 (July-Oct. 1958): pp. 368-376.
• Viré, Marie-Madeleine. "Stèles funéraires musulmanes soudano-sahariennes." Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Afrique Noire Ser. B, 21, no. 3-4 (July-Oct. 1959): pp. 459-500.
• Vrydagh, P. A. "Inventaire critique de la statuaire de pierre en Afrique noire traditionnelle." Journal de la Société des Africanistes 39, no. 1 (1969): pp. 7-56.