I am having a difficult time trying to find any information relating to Africans and their lives especially around the southern Egyptian region. All the books I was looking into have hardly any info on that region or it is more like footnotes.
This question stemmed from looking at this portrait of an African man, which was made during Roman time.
Thank you for your time.
Upper Egypt was a part of Egypt since 3000 BC., and it was that way even as a Roman province. The life in Upper Egypt wasn't markedly different from life in Lower Egypt, the whole province was administered by Greek-speaking bureucracy, which was kept intact by the Romans (previously Egypt was a part of the Ptolemaic Kingdom). During that time Hadrian built a new city of Antinoopolis in Upper Egypt. There likely isn't any information simply because the difference between the regions was small and they're treated as one province.