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DYNASTY  III

Francesco Raffaele
EARLY DYNASTIC EGYPT

Corpus of  Ist Dynasty Ivory and wooden labels

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NARMER
AHA
DJER
DJET
DEN
ADJIB
SEMERKHET
QA'A
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NARMER

Labels of Narmer are rare; Narmer 1 has been only recently found at Abydos and its importance is very high as we' ll see.
More tags have been found in the Naqada Mastaba belonging to his queen Neithhotep (but they're classified under Aha).
It is very likely that the practice to associate events to the tags, as indication of the year in which the commodity was produced, began just in the reign of Narmer.
Of the following only Narmer 1 is a real year-label.

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Narmer 1

Narmer 2

Narmer 3

 

Petrie, R.T. II, 19 (5.), pl. 2.5
("A small piece of ivory has the name of Narmer engraved on it")

Narmer 4

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Ivory cylinder from Hierakonpolis (Ashmolean Mus. E3915)
Ivory cylinder from Hierakonpolis (Ashmolean Mus. E3915)

Carved ivory objects from Abydos tomb of Narmer and Aha

Narmer (and Aha?) ivory fragments   New finds, 2002-2003