FRANCESCO RAFFAELE

LATE PREDYNASTIC AND
EARLY DYNASTIC EGYPT


Dedicated to the memory of Laura Degli Esposti, Stan Hendrickx and Michel Baud


Horus NARMER  (from the Main Deposit Palette)   Click on this image to go to the  PALETTES  CORPUS


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This is a detailed account of the History and Archaeology of the Egyptian Early Dynastic Period: check out the pages on the Second and Third Dynasty and on Dynasty 0. If you are interested in Late Predynastic Egypt (Protodynastic) and Early Dynastic period you'll certainly find here what you're searching for. There are also 4 corpora: First Dynasty Wooden and Ivory Labels, Early Dynastic Inscriptions on Stone Vessels, Naqada IIIb1-2 serekhs and Late Predynastic Decorated Palettes; articles, news, many pictures, images galleries, links and especially abundant text. Nice reading Francesco Raffaele




INTRODUCTION and INDEX of the SITE

 

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Recent Discoveries and Latest Researches in Egyptology. Proceedings of the First Neapolitan Congress of Egyptology, Naples, June 18th-20th 2008.
Francesco Raffaele, Massimiliano Nuzzolo and Ilaria Incordino (eds.). Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2010.

CONTENTS and PREFACE

Harrassowitz Verlag


My own paper published in this book (PDF, 4,9 Mb):
"Animal Rows and Ceremonial Processions in Late Predynastic Egypt"
Francesco Raffaele, in: F. Raffaele, M. Nuzzolo and I. Incordino (eds.),
Recent Discoveries and Latest Researches in Egyptology. Proceedings of the First Neapolitan Congress of Egyptology, Naples, June 18th-20th 2008
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Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2010. P. 245-285.




"DYNASTY 00"
Dynasty "00" (Naqada IIC-IIIA2)

(Naqada IIC-IIIA2)
DYNASTY 0

Dynasty 0 (Naqada IIIB = IIIb1-2)


(Naqada IIIB)
DYNASTY 0 "SEREKHS"

Perpetually updated


(Late Predynastic Egypt Royal Names)
DYNASTY 3  (J.P. Lauer)
GALLERIES OF IMAGES
Image Galleries

Cracow 2002 International Conference on the Origin of the State in Egypt

Important Egyptology articles

Book Reviews

New Discoveries

LINKS

EARLY DYNASTIC EGYPT KING BY KING HISTORY

EARLY DYNASTIC KINGS

Hierakonpolis (loc.33) Tomb100 painting


CORPUS OF FIRST DYNASTY IVORY AND WOODEN YEAR-LABELS

Corpus of  LABELS

CORPUS OF EARLY DYNASTIC INSCRIPTIONS ON STONE VESSELS
Corpus of STONE VESSELS with royal inscriptions
 


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I would like to thank for their support, counsels, discussions, suggestions, corrections and for sending me useful material: John D. Degreef, Rita di Maria, Umberto Minichiello, Aidan Dodson, Nabil Swelim, E.C.M. van den Brink, Stan Hendrickx, Michel Baud, Jochem Kahl, Renée Friedman, W. Vivian Davies, Krzysztof M. Cialowicz, John Baines, Alain Anselin, Joris van Wetering, Alejandro Jimenez-Serrano, Bastiaan Lieffering (R.I.P. my friend), Alessandro Suzzi Valli (uncle Seth), Carmela Tammone, Meri e Laura Degli Esposti, Flavio Merletti, Marialuisa e Giorgio Gasperetti, Aayko Eyma, Francois Tonic, Leszek Zinkow, Christine Van Heertum, Jon Bodsworth, Diane Allan, Jack Dean, Riccardo Banchi, Richard Zahnhausen, Teresa Soria, Juan de la Torre, Salima Ikram, Karine Gadre, Ilaria Incordino, Mr. Smith, Giuseppe Lebro (Peppi-nakht), Massimiliano Nuzzolo, Geoffrey Tassie, Giancarlo Negro, Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, András Zboray, Kat Newkirk, Jack G. Frazier, Maurilio Tracanna (R.I.P.), dott.sse Maria Casini, Rosanna Pirelli at Istituto Culturale Italiano Sezione Archeologica Cairo, Rezk Nessim Chehata at IFAO; DAIK and ARCE librarians, my parents Vittorio and Maria.

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