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Francesco Raffaele
EARLY DYNASTIC EGYPT
Corpus of Ist Dynasty Ivory and wooden labels
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NARMER
| Labels of Narmer are rare; Narmer 1 has been only recently
found at Abydos and its importance is very high as we' ll see. More tags have been found in the Naqada Mastaba belonging to his queen Neithhotep (but they're classified under Aha). It is very likely that the practice to associate events to the tags, as indication of the year in which the commodity was produced, began just in the reign of Narmer. Of the following only Narmer 1 is a real year-label. |
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Narmer 1 |
Narmer 2 |
Narmer 3 |
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Petrie, R.T. II, 19 (5.), pl. 2.5 Narmer 4 |
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Ivory cylinder from Hierakonpolis (Ashmolean Mus. E3915)
Carved ivory objects from Abydos tomb of Narmer and Aha
