The Predynastic online database, or Ponda for short, is a freely accessible, useful research tool dedicated to the Egyptian predynastic material culture, dating to of the fourth millenium BC.
The project aim is to publish extensive, currated corpora of artefacts. The objects are fully described, with special focus placed on linking them to the archaeological sites and/or contexts they come from, to their modern collecting and/or museum history, and to their publication history. References are listed chronologically instead of alphabetically in oder to better highlight the publication history of artefacts.
As a picture is worth a thousand words, images and drawings are included when available. This can include archival images, since they allow seeing modifications that happened to an object since its first publication – artefacts may have been lost, added to, mended, or conserved.
Each object is assigned a unique, permanent number, allowing for easy referencing to Ponda.org in publications. As research progresses, some artefacts are published in a large number of monographs, scientific articles, websites, digital catalogues, and so on. It is hoped that referring to Ponda.org will allow authors to not necessarily include these often repetitive and lengthy lists of references.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2026
Ponda.org: Predynastic online database
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