Late Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt by Francesco Raffaele

This is a detailed account of the History and Archaeology of the Egyptian Early Dynastic Period: check out the pages on the Second and Third Dynasty and on Dynasty 0. If you are interested in Late Predynastic Egypt (Protodynastic) and Early Dynastic period you'll certainly find here what you're searching for. There are also 4 corpora: First Dynasty Wooden and Ivory Labels, Early Dynastic Inscriptions on Stone Vessels, Naqada IIIb1-2 serekhs and Late Predynastic Decorated Palettes; articles, news, many pictures, images galleries, links and especially abundant text. Nice reading Francesco Raffaele

Recent Discoveries and Latest Researches in Egyptology. Proceedings of the First Neapolitan Congress of Egyptology, Naples, June 18th-20th 2008.
Francesco Raffaele, Massimiliano Nuzzolo and Ilaria Incordino (eds.). Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2010.

CONTENTS and PREFACE

Harrassowitz Verlag

My own paper published in this book (PDF, 4,9 Mb):
"Animal Rows and Ceremonial Processions in Late Predynastic Egypt"
Francesco Raffaele, in: F. Raffaele, M. Nuzzolo and I. Incordino (eds.),
Recent Discoveries and Latest Researches in Egyptology. Proceedings of the First Neapolitan Congress of Egyptology, Naples, June 18th-20th 2008.
Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden, 2010. P. 245-285.

I would like to thank for their support, counsels, discussions, suggestions, corrections and for sending me useful material: John D. Degreef, Rita di Maria, Umberto Minichiello, Aidan Dodson, Nabil Swelim, E.C.M. van den Brink, Stan Hendrickx, Michel Baud, Jochem Kahl, Ren�e Friedman, W. Vivian Davies, Krzysztof M. Cialowicz, John Baines, Alain Anselin, Joris van Wetering, Alejandro Jimenez-Serrano, Bastiaan Lieffering (R.I.P. my friend), Alessandro Suzzi Valli (uncle Seth), Carmela Tammone, Meri e Laura Degli Esposti, Flavio Merletti, Marialuisa e Giorgio Gasperetti, Aayko Eyma, Francois Tonic, Leszek Zinkow, Christine Van Heertum, Jon Bodsworth, Diane Allan, Jack Dean, Riccardo Banchi, Richard Zahnhausen, Teresa Soria, Juan de la Torre, Salima Ikram, Karine Gadre, Ilaria Incordino, Mr. Smith, Giuseppe Lebro (Peppi-nakht), Massimiliano Nuzzolo, Geoffrey Tassie, Giancarlo Negro, Jean-Lo�c Le Quellec, András Zboray, Kat Newkirk, Jack G. Frazier, Maurilio Tracanna (R.I.P.), dott.sse Maria Casini, Rosanna Pirelli at Istituto Culturale Italiano Sezione Archeologica Cairo, Rezk Nessim Chehata at IFAO; DAIK and ARCE librarians, my parents Vittorio and Maria.

"DYNASTY 00" (Naqada IIC-IIIA2)	DYNASTY 0 (Naqada IIIB)	DYNASTY 0 "SEREKHS" (Late Predynastic Egypt Royal Names)
(FIRST DYNASTY)	SECOND DYNASTY	THIRD DYNASTY
Predynastic and Protodynastic Egypt: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization + LECTURE An Example of Early Dynastic Writing ARTICLES SAQQARA ANIMALS HESYRA	GALLERIES OF IMAGES	Cracow 2002 International Conference on the Origin of the State in Egypt Important Egyptology articles Book Reviews New Discoveries LINKS