General works

 

W.B. Emery ' Archaic Egypt ' (1961) Harmondsworth

I.E.S. Edwards ' The Early Dynastic Period in Egypt ' C.A.H. III ediz. vol. I.1 , p.1-70 (1971)

and, in the same Cambridge Ancient History vol. I.2 W.S. Smith p.145-207 (dyn. 3 on)

R. Weill : The II nd and III rd dynasties in Egypt (1908)

id. : The Ist dynasty (1961)

N. Swelim : Some Problems on the History of the Third Dynasty

'Archaeological and Historical Studies' n.7. (87)Alessandria

J. Spencer ed. 'Early Dynastic Egypt' (1996)

T.A.H. Wilkinson : Early Dynastic Egypt (1999) Routledge*****

 

Epigraphy

P. Kaplony 'Die Inschriften der Agyptischen Fruhzeit' (1963) (abbr. I.A.F.)

id. ' Die Inschriften der Agyptischer Fruhzeit . Supplement ' (1965)

id. 'Kleine Beitrage zu den Inschriften der ...' (1966) (abbr. KBIAF)

W. Helck 'Untersuchungen zur Thinitenzeit' (1987) (abbr. Thinitenzeit)

J. Kahl 'Das System der agyptischen Hieroglyphenschrift 0-3 D.'(1994) (abbr. SAH)

Kahl, Kloth, Zimmermann 'Die Inschriften der 3. Dynastie' (AA 1995)

 

Art and Architecture

B.Porter & N.Moss ' Topographical Bibliography ' (1927-51) ***** (abbr.PM)

Voci nel 'Lexicon der Agyptologie' (1977) (abbr. L.A.)

J. Quibell : Archaic Mastabas (1923)

id . : Excavations at Saqqara 1911-12: The Tomb of Hesy (1913)

A. Mariette : Les Mastabas de l' Ancien Empire (1889)

J. Vandier 'Manuel d' Archéologie ... I' (1952) pag. 613-990

W.S. Smith 'A History of Egyptian sculpture and painting...' (1946) (abbr. HESPOK)

W.Wood (J.A.R.C.E. 15, 1978) A Reconstruction of the reliefs of Hesyra

J.P. Lauer : Histor. Monument.

 

Excavations