Abstract
The Early Dynastic period includes the Ist and the IInd Dynasties and is equivalent to Petrie’s S.D. 77–85. From the excavations at Tarkhan, Petrie assigns S.D. 77–76 to Dynasty O, S.D. 79–82 to Dynasty I and S.D. 83–85 to Dynasty II, but the so-called “Dynasty O” seems to belong to the beginning of the Ist Dynasty and should be included therein. As shown by the series of S.D., the Early Dynasties form a continuation of the later Predynastic culture, with some additions and amplifications which are probably due to the influx of an invading people who stimulated the creative power of the native people as well as brought in some new cultural elements from their fatherland. In the U.C.
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- 1.
Petrie, Tarkhan 1, p. 3.
- 2.
e.g. Petrie, royal Tombs, II, pl. xiv, 50–51.
- 3.
Brunton, Qau and Badari 1, p. 16.
- 4.
e.g. some from Abydos, see Petrie, Royal Tombs, II, pl. xxxviii, 10; and some from Turah, see Junker, Turah, p. 16.
- 5.
Some from Tomb W9 at Abydos, see Petrie, Royal Tombs II, pl. xxxviii, 16.
- 6.
Reisner, Naga ed-Der 1, p. 114, 118; for syenite, see also Junker, Turah, p. 16.
- 7.
Brunton, Qau and Badari 1, p. 16.
- 8.
Artiole in A.S. vol. xxxix(1939) p. 709.
- 9.
For silver beads aee Reisner, Nage ed-Der II, p. 48.
- 10.
Petrie, Arts and Crafts, p. 116.
- 11.
Morgan, Rechenches sur les origines de l’Egypte, II, Tombeau royale de Negadah, p. 196, Figs. 722, 724, (Cairo Museum J14125).
- 12.
Lucas, Note on red faience in J. E. A. xxiv, (1938).
- 13.
Ann. Serv. vol.xxxix (1939) p. 769.
- 14.
Brunton, Qau and Badari I, p. 16.
- 15.
Petrie, Royal Tombs II, pl. 1 pp. 16–19.
- 16.
Cairo Museumno. 52010, from the tomb of King Zer, see Petrie, Royal Tom 11, pl. 1, pp. 16–19.
- 17.
Quibell and Green, Hierakonpolis II, p. 12, Sect. 31.
- 18.
Reisner, Naga ed-Der I, p. 7.
- 19.
Ibid, p. 30, 143, pl. vi.
- 20.
e.g. the four bracelets from the tomb of Zet at Abydos (Cairo Museum Nos. 52008–52011); decorated gold beads from Naga ed-Der, (C. M. Cat. no. 53803); see Vernier’s Catloge Gen.du Musee du Caire, and also Petrie, Royal Tombs II, pl. 1, pp. 16–19, Reisner, Naga ed-Der, I, p. 118, pl. 6–7.
- 21.
For a whip made of conical beads, but dated to the Middle Kingdom, see Winlock, Tomb of Senebtisi, pp. 15–16, Fig. 7.
- 22.
Ann. Serv. vol. xxxix, (1939), p. 769.
- 23.
Brunton, Lahun 11, pl. 1xiii, 58L.
- 24.
Petrie, Abydos I, p. 16.pl. xliv.
- 25.
Brunton, Qau and Badari I, p. 16 (Corpus (89n3).
- 26.
Petrie, Tarkhan I, p. 22, pl.111, 5.
- 27.
Quibell and Green, Hierakonpolis, I, p. 8; pt. 11; pp. 30–39.
- 28.
Reisner, Naga ed-Der I, p. 117.
- 29.
Petrie, Royal Tomb II, pl. 1; pp. 16–19.
- 30.
Ann. Serv. vol. xxxix (1939), p. 769, pl. cxliva.
- 31.
Junker, Turah, p. 61.
- 32.
Petrie, Abydos II, p. 24, pl. 11,9.
- 33.
Petrie, Royal Tombs II, p. 28, pl. xii, 2.
- 34.
e.g. Petrie, Naqada, pl. lix, 1 and 7; Petrie, Prehistoric Egypt pl. 11, 4 and 6.
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Xia, N. (2014). The Early Dynastic Period. In: Ancient Egyptian Beads. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54868-0_16
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