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    Adams's death in 2001, and by Renée Friedman thereafter. Hierakonpolis ivory head. Hierakonpolis limestone head. Male statuettes with penile sheaths. The...
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    The Narmer Palette, also known as the Great Hierakonpolis Palette or the Palette of Narmer, is a significant Egyptian archaeological find, dating from...
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    powerful and wealthy kingdom. Hierakonpolis revetment of Temple basement Hierakonpolis cylindrical limestone vase Hierakonpolis ivory cylinder with kneeling...
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  • semi-arid savannah, through desertification. c. 3500 BC: First known zoo at Hierakonpolis. c. 3400 BC: Sumerian temple record keepers redesign the stamp seal...
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    near Hierakonpolis, was depicted as a woman, sometimes with the head of a vulture, wearing the white crown. The falcon god Horus of Hierakonpolis (Egyptian:...
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    Two Dog Palette or the Minor Hierakonpolis Dogs Palette, is an Ancient Egyptian cosmetic palette discovered in Hierakonpolis. It is part of the collection...
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    deposit" in the temple area of the ancient Egyptian city of Nekhen (Hierakonpolis) by James Quibell in 1898. It is dated to the Early Dynastic Period...
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    Green in what they called the main deposit in the temple of Horus at Hierakonpolis during the dig season of 1897–1898. It measures 25 centimeters long...
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    Egyptian art and literature. Statues and statuettes of lions found at Hierakonpolis and Koptos in Upper Egypt date to the Early Dynastic Period. The early...
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    Shaven-headed man with beard, from Hierakonpolis. Male statuettes with shaven heads and penile sheaths, from Hierakonpolis. Petroglyphs from Gebel Sheikh...
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    of the Nile valley. Establishing a power center at Nekhen (in Greek, Hierakonpolis), and later at Abydos, Naqada III leaders expanded their control of...
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    wood panel. The first known Egyptian fresco was found in Tomb 100 at Hierakonpolis, and dated to c. 3500–3200 BC. Several of the themes and designs visible...
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    Palette, discovered by James E. Quibell in the 1897–1898 season at Hierakonpolis, shows Narmer wearing the crown of Upper Egypt on one side of the palette...
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    have reigned during the early 32nd century BC. He probably ruled from Hierakonpolis over Abydos and the wider Thinite region and controlled Egypt at least...
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    scouts, Chief of foreign regions, Great Chief of the nomes of Edfu and Hierakonpolis, Ankhtifi, says: Horus brought me to the nome of Edfu for life, prosperity...
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  • at Hierakonpolis: 1979 - 1985, Oxford: Archaeopress, 2000, ISBN 1-84171-099-7 Barbara Adams, Ancient Nekhen - Garstang in the city of Hierakonpolis, New...
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    drug restores hair colour". BBC News. 2002-08-08. "Interactive Dig Hierakonpolis - Archaeological Hair". Archaeology.org. Archived from the original...
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  • U+1314F image of falcon with two plumes Sopdu (spdw) Horus of Nekhen (Hierakonpolis) (ḥrw-nḫnj) 𓅐 G14 U+13150 vulture Mother (mwt) vulture (nrt) 𓅑 G15...
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    The ancient Egyptian Man-prisoner is one of the oldest hieroglyphs from Ancient Egypt. An iconographic portrayal from predynastic Egypt eventually led...
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    French cartoonist and storyteller Enki Bilal. Horus, patron deity of Hierakonpolis (near Edfu), the predynastic capital of Upper Egypt. Its head was executed...
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    Egypt appears as a relief carving on slate on the cosmetic palette from Hierakonpolis, the Two Dog Palette dated to the Early Dynastic Period, c. 3300–3100 BC...
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    Oxford Palette from Hierakonpolis. Ashmolean Museum....
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  • is an American Egyptologist, primarily known for her work at Nekhen (Hierakonpolis). Friedman received her BA from the University of California at Berkeley...
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    (37 acres) and is about 2.5 times as large as the Old Kingdom town of Hierakonpolis. Several features of the complex differ from those of later Old Kingdom...
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    neighbors at that time. Egyptology Online (sebakh used as fertilizer) Hierakonpolis Online (archaeological sebakh digging) University of Southampton, 2002...
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    Wazner, Ro, Serket, Narmer. 3500–3400 BC – Jar with boat designs, from Hierakonpolis (today in the Brooklyn Museum) is created. Predynastic Egypt. c. 3150...
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  • farther to the south at Mahgar Dendera, Armant, Elkab and Nekhen (named Hierakonpolis by the Greeks), as well as to the east in the Wadi Hammamat. Older and...
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    from quarries in the Wadi Hammamat. Many of the palettes were found at Hierakonpolis, a centre of power in pre-dynastic Upper Egypt. After the unification...
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    refer to the ancestors of the ancient Egyptian kings. Nekhen (Greek Hierakonpolis) was the Upper Egyptian centre of the worship of the god Horus, whose...
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  • worked at Coptos in 1893, then at Nagada, Ballas, Thebes, El Kab, and Hierakonpolis in successive years, including the Ramesseum. He also assisted Cecil...
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