The rock art tableaux that form the large pictorial cycle at Nag el-Hamdulab, on the west bank of the Nile approximately 6 km north of Aswan, represent an extended festival scene dating from the cusp of Dynasty 0 and the First Dynasty. An early hieroglyphic annotation accompanies the main panel (tableau 7a) of the ensemble, and supports, along with the iconography, a date during the reign of Narmer. The four signs making up the early text appear to describe a ritual, apparently the “Following of Horus,” that involved both the confirmation of royal ritual power and the physical taxation and incorporation of marginal areas and their inhabitants. In the Nag el-Hamdulab cycle, the king appears prominently for the first time as both overseer and...
Detail of the cornice above the Birth Colonnade, showing the cavetto cornice with some painted strip...
A tablet found at Abydos at the end of the last century, lost for many years and rediscovered in 195...
Architecture of ancient Egypt is criss-crossed by a series of giant projects whose aim was to celebr...
This paper focuses on the reading of the short hieroglyphic inscription revealed after the recent re...
Coleman Darnell John, Hendrickx Stan, Gatto Maria Carmela. Once more the Nag el-Hamdulab early hiero...
During surveys of the northern hinterland of the region of Elkab, in May of 2017 the Elkab Desert Su...
Coleman Darnell John. Iconographic Attraction, Iconographic Syntax, and Tableaux of Royal Ritual Pow...
Since 1998, the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels have been conducting rock art research ...
Using a variety of evidence, both from prehistoric Upper Egyptian rock art and representations on Pr...
Since 1998, the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels have been conducting rock art research ...
Dès les premières dynasties, le pictogramme fut dans l’écriture le prolongement des représentations ...
The Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project has been active in the First Nile Cataract region since 20...
Among the many scenes and texts that occur for the first time in the Nineteenth Dynasty cenotaph of ...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [110]-119)During the Old Kingdom period (c. 2686-2181 BC)...
Bibliography: pages [135]-142.The Heb-Sed is probably the most researched festival of ancient Egypti...
Detail of the cornice above the Birth Colonnade, showing the cavetto cornice with some painted strip...
A tablet found at Abydos at the end of the last century, lost for many years and rediscovered in 195...
Architecture of ancient Egypt is criss-crossed by a series of giant projects whose aim was to celebr...
This paper focuses on the reading of the short hieroglyphic inscription revealed after the recent re...
Coleman Darnell John, Hendrickx Stan, Gatto Maria Carmela. Once more the Nag el-Hamdulab early hiero...
During surveys of the northern hinterland of the region of Elkab, in May of 2017 the Elkab Desert Su...
Coleman Darnell John. Iconographic Attraction, Iconographic Syntax, and Tableaux of Royal Ritual Pow...
Since 1998, the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels have been conducting rock art research ...
Using a variety of evidence, both from prehistoric Upper Egyptian rock art and representations on Pr...
Since 1998, the Royal Museums of Art and History in Brussels have been conducting rock art research ...
Dès les premières dynasties, le pictogramme fut dans l’écriture le prolongement des représentations ...
The Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project has been active in the First Nile Cataract region since 20...
Among the many scenes and texts that occur for the first time in the Nineteenth Dynasty cenotaph of ...
Includes bibliographical references (pages [110]-119)During the Old Kingdom period (c. 2686-2181 BC)...
Bibliography: pages [135]-142.The Heb-Sed is probably the most researched festival of ancient Egypti...
Detail of the cornice above the Birth Colonnade, showing the cavetto cornice with some painted strip...
A tablet found at Abydos at the end of the last century, lost for many years and rediscovered in 195...
Architecture of ancient Egypt is criss-crossed by a series of giant projects whose aim was to celebr...