Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt

Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt
by Francesco Raffaele 

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. 

ABBREVIATIONS => EGYPTOLOGY PUBLICATIONS: ABBREVIATIONS
ABYDOS BOATS (Funerary Early Dynastic Boats, discovered by David O' Connor in North Abydos)
ABYDOS NORTH (Royal Enclosures/ Talbezirke)
ADJIB (First Dynasty King; only an introduction, in Italian); LABELS
AHA (First Dynasty King; only an introduction, in Italian); LABELS
ANIMALS (Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt representations of animals)
ANNALS (New Annals of the Vth Dynasty, the 'South Saqqara Stone'). PALERMO STONE
ARTICLES (List of important articles on Early Dynastic Period and related subjects)
ARTICLES (of mine)
ASHMOLEAN PALETTE, DOGS PALETTE, HIERAKONPOLIS PALETTE
BA (Third Dynasty ephemeral king, uncertain chronological position)
BASTET (Goddess, incised name on a stone vessel fragment in a private collection)
BATTLEFIELD PALETTE, VULTURES PALETTE, LION PALETTE
BIRD (First - Second Dynasty I.P. ephemeral king, uncertain name reading)
BULL PALETTE
CORPUS => LABELS; => STONE VESSELS INSCRIPTIONS; => PALETTES
CHRONOLOGY (Predynastic - Early Dynastic)
DEN , WDJMW , DWN (First Dynasty King; only an introduction, in Italian) LABELS
DJER , ZER , SEKHTY (First Dynasty King; only an introduction, in Italian) LABELS
DJET , WADJET , SERPENT (First Dynasty King; only an introduction, in Italian) LABELS
DJOSER, NETERYKHET (Third Dynasty King; to be completed)
DJOSER' S COMPLEX, FOTOS
DJOSERTY ANKH => SEKHEMKHET
"DYNASTY" (On the term...)
DYNASTIES
DYNASTY "00"
DYNASTY 0
DYNASTY 1
DYNASTY 2
DYNASTY 3
EGYPTOLOGICAL BIBLIOGRAPHICAL ABBREVIATIONS (Link to another Website)
EMERY, WALTER BRYAN (1903-1971)
ENCLOSURES (Talbezirke, Open Courts, 'Forts'): => Abydos North, => Saqqara
FRANCESCO RAFFAELE E-MAIL (E-mail address of the author of this website, Napoli - Italy)
GEBELEIN PAINTED LINEN / TEXTILE (Naqada IIa-b)
HELWAN
HEMAKA LABEL
HESYRA (HEZYRA, HESIRE)
HIERAKONPOLIS TOMB 100 (Painted Decoration)
HOME PAGE, MAIN PAGE http://members.xoom.it/francescoraf/
HOTEPSEKHEMUY , HOTEP (Second Dynasty King)
HUNI , NISWTEH (Third Dynasty King)
HUNTERS PALETTE
IMAGE GALLERIES, INDEX
IMAGE GALLERIES, MY PHOTOGRAPHS
IMAGE GALLERIES, MAP AND PLANS
IMAGE GALLERIES, ARCHAIC SCULPTURE
IMAGE GALLERIES, CONTEMPORARY INSCRIPTIONS AND LATER KINGS-LISTS
IMAGE GALLERIES, CORPUS OF LATE PREDYNASTIC DECORATED PALETTES
IMAGE GALLERIES, EARLY DYNASTIC MONUMENTS FROM THE WEB
IMAGE GALLERIES, ARCHAIC RELIEFS (STELAE, DOOR JAMBS, FALSE DOORS)
IMAGE GALLERIES, VARIOUS OBJECTS
IMAGE GALLERIES, KNIFE HANDLES, IVORY COMBS, MACE-HEADS
IMAGE GALLERIES, STONE VESSELS INSCRIPTIONS (NARMER TO SNOFRU)
INSCRIPTIONS ON LABELS
INSCRIPTIONS ON STONE VESSELS => STONE VESSELS INSCRIPTIONS
IRY HOR (Dynasty 0 King)
IRY NETJER NEBTY => SEMERKHET
KA , SEKHEN (Dynasty 0 King)
KHABA (Third Dynasty King)
KHASEKHEMUY NETJERWYHOTEPIMEF (Second Dynasty King)
KHASETY, KHASTY => DEN
KNIFE-HANDLES (Decorated)
LABELS CORPUS
LABELS : EXAMPLE OF TRANSLATION
LAYER PYRAMID (Khaba)
LINKS (Other Websites Urls)
LOUVRE PALETTE
MACEHEADS (Scorpion and Narmer)
MENES (=> Narmer, Aha)
MERBIAPE, MERPUBIA => ADJIB
MERNEITH / MERETNITH (First Dynasty Queen)
NAQADA PHASES
NARMER (First Dynasty King) LABELS
NARMER PALETTE
NEBKA (Third Dynasty King)
NEBKARA NEBTAUY (Third Dynasty ? ephemeral King)
NEBRA (Second Dynasty King)
NEFERKA (Third Dynasty ephemeral King)
NEFERKARA (Second Dynasty ephemeral King)
NEFERKASOKAR (Second Dynasty ephemeral King)
NETJERYKHET, DJOSER (Third Dynasty King)
NEWS (About Important Early Dynastic Recent Discoveries)
NEWS (of this Website)
NINETJER , NINETER (Second Dynasty King)
NWBNEFER, NEBWNEFER, NEBNEFER (Second Dynasty ephemeral King)
ORIGIN OF THE STATE: PREDYNASTIC AND EARLY DYNASTIC EGYPT (Cracow 2002 Conference)
PALERMO STONE, RECONSTRUCTION
PALETTES (Corpus of Late Predynastic Decorated Palettes)
PERIBSEN (Second Dynasty King)
PERENMAAT SEKHEMIB (Second Dynasty King)
PREDYNASTIC
PREDYNASTIC AND EARLY DYNASTIC (Synthesis, Model, Chronologies)
PRINCESSES, QUEENS (early attestations for Royal Women in Dynasties 0-3)
QA'A , SEN NEBTY , SHOTEP NEBTY (First Dynasty King; only an introduction, in Italian) LABELS
QA HEDJET (Third Dynasty King)
RANEB , NEBRA (Second Dynasty King)
SANAKHT (Third Dynasty King)
SAQQARA (Plan and monuments)
SCORPION (II) (Dynasty 0 Hierakonpolis King)
SEKHEMIB PERENMAAT (Second Dynasty King)
SEMERKHET (First Dynasty King; only an introduction, in Italian) LABELS
SENED, SENEDJ (Second Dynasty ephemeral King)
SEREKHS (Palace façade device containing the royal name, generally surmounted by the falcon-god Horus)
SHUNET EZ-ZEBIB (Khasekhemwy's mudbrick enclosure at Abydos North)
SNEFERKA, SENEFERKA (First - Second Dynasty I.P. ephemeral King)
SOUTH SAQQARA ANNALS DYNASTY 6
STATE FORMATION: THE ORIGINS OF EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION (lecture scheme)
STONE VESSELS INSCRIPTIONS (Narmer to Snofrw)
TAGS, LABELS CORPUS
TEHENU PALETTE, LYBIAN BOOTY PALETTE, TOWNS PALETTE
TURTLES/ TORTOISES
UNIFICATION OF EGYPT (SEE ALSO: DYNASTY 0)
UPDATES OF THIS SITE
WEST SAQQARA
WNEG, UNEG (Second Dynasty ephemeral King)
ZA => WNEG (Second or Early Third Dynasty ephemeral King)
ZANAKHT (Third Dynasty King)