The Narmer Catalog is a comprehensive database, gathering in
one convenient location all available information about archaeological
objects with inscriptions related to Narmer, the first king of Ancient
Egypt. The Catalog includes 112 inscriptions, from 28 different sites in Egypt, the Sinai, and southern Canaan.
This digital catalog is provided as a free public resource for
researchers and others interested in this key figure in the history of
ancient Egypt.
What The Narmer Catalog Contains
The Catalog contains records for all known artifacts with
inscriptions bearing the name of Narmer. Also incorporated into this
database are inscriptions attributed to his reign, including several
"problematic" inscriptions, whose exact meaning and dating have yet to
be positively determined. Each record in The Catalog includes key information
(including Dated by, Type, Material, Site, and Depository),
illustrations (both drawings and photographs), as well as an extensive
bibliography of the inscription.
The most well-known entries in the catalog are the Narmer Palette (shown here) and the Narmer Macehead.
Also included are much more recent discoveries, including unpublished
inscriptions, and recent reconstructions such as the Narmer Boxes
(Source nos. 6101, 6102, and 6103).
One enduring question these inscriptions have helped to address is
Narmer’s true identity. The issue is whether the ancient Egyptian ruler
known by the personal name Menes took the “throne name” Narmer (as the
majority of Egyptologists agree) or whether Menes was actually Narmer’s
successor, who took the throne name Hor-Aha. This question is the
subject of the article “Who Was Menes?” which can be found on this website.
The AWOL Index: The bibliographic data presented herein has been programmatically extracted from the content of AWOL - The Ancient World Online (ISSN 2156-2253) and formatted in accordance with a structured data model.
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University
AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009.
The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.
The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.
AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.
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