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The Second Intermediate Period

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After the Middle Kingdom, Egypt was invaded by nomadic peoples. The Semitic invasion from the Asiatic side resulted in a line of Hyksos or “Shepherd Kings”.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Also found at Abusir, see Moellers and Scharff, Abusir el-Meleq, pp. 94–95, from Tomb 525.

  2. 2.

    Ibid. pp. 94–95.

  3. 3.

    Haematite beads have been found also in other sites, see Mace, El Armah and Abydos, p. 101, and Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 125, sec. 170.

  4. 4.

    Brunton, Qau III, p. 7; Mostagedda, p. 125, sec. 170.

  5. 5.

    Wainwright, Balabish, p. 21, types13, 23; and Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 125, sec. 170.

  6. 6.

    Brunton, Monstagedda, p. 125, sec. 170.

  7. 7.

    Petrie, Diospolis Parva, p. 53, sec. 83.

  8. 8.

    Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 125, sec. 169; Wainwright, Balabish, pp. 21–22, type 5.

  9. 9.

    Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 124, sec. 170.

  10. 10.

    Unbaked clay beads also reported in Garstang, El, Arabah, p. 26, E3.

  11. 11.

    Red paste beads also reported in Brunton, Qau III, p. 11.

  12. 12.

    Brunton, Qau III, p. 11, pl, xxxii, 43; Petrie and Brunton, Sedment, p. 18. xIiii, 9.

  13. 13.

    Brunton, Qau III, p. 11. pl.xi, 18; Mostagedda, p. 125, pl Ixxvi, 13, 33, 34.

  14. 14.

    Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 125, pl. Ixxvi,35.

  15. 15.

    Beck. Glass before 1500 B.C., in A.E. 1934, une, pp. 14–15, no.17, where the king is wrongly dated to the XIth Dynasty.

  16. 16.

    Petrie and Brunton, Sedment, p. 16, pl.xIiii; Brunton, Qau III, p. 11, pls.xi, 94; xxxii, 63–64; Moellers and Scharff, Abusir el Meleq. pp. 94–95, pl.72 (Berlin18765).

  17. 17.

    Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 125, pl. Ixxvi, 14, 36, 59–62; and a similar boss was found at Fifeh, see Petrie, Gizeh and Rifeh, pl.xiiic, 105.

  18. 18.

    Wainwright, Balabish, pp. 21–22, type 5.

  19. 19.

    Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 125, sec. 169 (ix).

  20. 20.

    Petrie, Diospolis Parva, p. 53, sec. 83.

  21. 21.

    Garstang, El Arabah, p. 26.

  22. 22.

    Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 125, sec. 170.

  23. 23.

    Ibid., pp. 125–126, sec. 168.

  24. 24.

    Ibid., p. 125, sec. 168.

  25. 25.

    Brunton, Qau III, p. 11, sec. 24.

  26. 26.

    Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 125, sec. 170.

  27. 27.

    Brunton, Qau III, p. 11, pl.xxxii, 93.

  28. 28.

    Ibid., pl.xi, 30, 117.

  29. 29.

    Melon beads have been found also at Qau, both in the Egyptian and the Pan graves, see Brunton, Qau III, p11, pls.xi, 19; xxxii, 60–62.

  30. 30.

    Floral beads have been found also in the Pan graves, see Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 125, sec. 169 (viii), Corpus no. Pan grave beads 50.

  31. 31.

    Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 125, sec, 169 (viii); Wainwright, Balabish p. 21, type 15.

  32. 32.

    Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 125, sec. 169 (iii), pl.Ixxvi, 31, 32.

  33. 33.

    Wainwright, Balabish, p. 21, type 17.

  34. 34.

    Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 125, sec. 169 (i), (iv) pl.Ixxvi, 15, 33; p. 125, sec. 170.

  35. 35.

    Ibid., p. 125, sec. 169(ii), pl.Ixxvi, 16, 17; & Wainwright, Baladish pl.xiii, 6.

  36. 36.

    Brunton, Mostagedda, pl.Ixxvi, 19.

  37. 37.

    Mace, El Amrah and Abydos, p. 88, pl.xIiv.

  38. 38.

    Brunton, Qau III, pl.xi, 47.

  39. 39.

    Petrie and Brunton, Sedment I, p. 20, sec. 35, Petrie, Diospolis Parva, p. 53, sec. 83.

  40. 40.

    Brunton, Qau III, p. 7, pl.xi 41–42; Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 125, pl.Ixxvi, 54–57; Petrie, Gizeh and Rifeh pp. 20–21, Petrie Diospolis Parva pp. 46–47, pl, xI; Wainwright, Balabish, p. 20, pl.iii,3.

  41. 41.

    Brunton, Qau III, pl.v, from Tomb 1301, now in the U.C.

  42. 42.

    Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 125, pl.Ixxvi, 13.

  43. 43.

    Ibid., p. 125, sec. 169(iv), pl.Ixxvi, 33; Brunton, Qau III, pl.xi18.

  44. 44.

    Brunton, Qau III, p. 11, pl.xxxii, 43.

  45. 45.

    Petrie and Brunton, Sedment, p. 18, pl.xIiii, 9.

  46. 46.

    Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 125, sec. 170; Wainwright, Balabish, p. 21, type IB.

  47. 47.

    Brunton, Mostangedda, p. 125, sec. 169(v), pl.Ixxvi, 35.

  48. 48.

    Petrie and Brunton, Sedment I, p. 19, sec. 33.

  49. 49.

    Wainwright, Balabish, p. 20; see also Petrie, Diospolis Parva p. 47.

  50. 50.

    Brunton, Mostagedda, pp. 125–126, sec. 170.

  51. 51.

    Wainwright, Balabish, p. 20, pl.iii, 3; and Petrie, Diospolis Parva, pp. 46–47, pl.xI.

  52. 52.

    Wainwright, Balabish, p. 20, pl.iii, 3; Petrie, Diospolis Parva pp. 46–47, pl.xI.

  53. 53.

    Wainwright, Balabish, p. 20, pl.viii, 9, 12.

  54. 54.

    Petrie, Diospolis Parva, pp. 46–47.

  55. 55.

    Wainwright, Balabish, p. 20, pl.viii, 8, 13.

  56. 56.

    Ibid., p. 20; Petrie, Gizeh and Rifeh, p. 21, sec. 62.

  57. 57.

    Petrie, Diospolis Parva, pp. 46–47.

  58. 58.

    Brunton, Mostagedda, p. 134, sec. 186, from Tomb 418.

  59. 59.

    Petrie & Brunton, Sedment, I, p. 19, sec, 33.

  60. 60.

    Ibid., pp. 16–17.

  61. 61.

    Wainwright, Balabish, p. 20, pls.iv, 1; x, 1.

  62. 62.

    Garstang, El Arabah, pp. 25–26.

  63. 63.

    Petrie, Sedment , p. 20, sec. 35; Brunton, Qau III, p. 11.sec. 24.

  64. 64.

    Wainwright, Balabish, p. 23; Petrie, Diospolis Parva, pp. 46–47, sec. 68; Brunton, Mostagedda, pp. 125–126, sec. 169.

  65. 65.

    Wainwright, Balabish, pp. 50–51.

  66. 66.

    Ibid., pp. 49–50; cf. Reisner, Archaeological Survey in Nubia, vol. I, pp. 52, 338.

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Xia, N. (2014). The Second Intermediate Period. In: Ancient Egyptian Beads. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54868-0_20

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