Early Dynastic Egypt Site: Some Images

Early Dynastic Egypt Site: Some Images

Various objects (2): Predynastic and Early Dynastic knife-handles, mace-heads, combs
(Naqada IID1-Naqada IIIC2, c. 3450-2940 BC)
by Francesco Raffaele

Page 7.1

(See the pages: "Dynasty 00"--------- "Dynasty 0")

This is only a summary of some of my website images (discussed in other pages of the site).
Click on the previews to see the full-size image

4 objects from Gebelein (?), Naqada IID1

Abydos, tomb U-503 knife-handle

Abydos tomb U-127 knife-handle
Brooklyn Museum ivory knife and handle (09.889.118) Abu Zeidan tomb B32
Brooklyn Museum knife-handle (09.889.118) Abu Zeidan t. B32

Gebel el Arak knife-handle (Louvre Mus. E11517)
Gebel el Arak knife-handle
Gebel Tarif golden handle (Cairo Museum)
Gebel Tarif golden handle

Sayala gold tubular cover of a mace-handle from cemetery 137 tomb 1

Berlin ivory handle (15137)
Ivory knife-handle
(Berlin Mus. 15137)
Ivory Knife-Handle, Petrie Museum, U.C. London
Petrie Museum knife handle
(London, UC 16294)
Davis Comb (Metropolitan Mus. of Art, New York, 30.8.224)
Davis Comb (MMA 30.8.224)

Carnarvon Knife-handle
Pitt-Rivers ivory knife handle
Pitt-Rivers knife handle
Hierakonpolis relief decorated ivories (cylinders, tusks, bones and other implements) Quibell, Hierakonpolis Pt. 1, pl. 12-17
Hierakonpolis ivories (IIIA-C1)

Handle, Oxford E4975 (Hierakonpolis)

Metropolitan Museum
Knife-handle (26.241.1)
Bearer Macehead (UC 14898A) Hierakonpolis (Quibell, Hierakonpolis pt. I, pl. 26A)
Bearer Macehead (UC 14898A)

Hierakonpolis Royal Macehead
(London, UC 14898)
Scorpion macehead Ashmolean Mus. Oxford E3632 (photo by Jon Bodsworth)
Scorpion macehead

Narmer macehead

Djet's Comb (Cairo Museum JdE 47176) (note: the image preview is vertically mirrored)
Djet comb
(Cairo JdE 47176)

NOTE: FOR MANY MORE OBJECTS GO TO THE DYNASTY 0