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    Eileithuia / el-Kab Elkab, also spelled El-Kab or El Kab, is an Upper Egyptian site on the east bank of the Nile at the mouth of the Wadi Hillal about...
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  • king himself). Otherwise she is mentioned on a scarab and in a tomb at Elkab, where there is also mentioned her daughter Neferhotep. A steatite scarab...
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    examples of the African fish eagle have been found at the Necropolis at Elkab. Kazinga Channel, Uganda Lake Naivasha, Kenya Juvenile in flight, Ethiopia...
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  • local governor at Elkab. Sobeknakht I started his career as a King's Son and Overseer of the gs-pr. Later, he became Governor of Elkab. The overseer of...
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    who worked and lived in the Second Intermediate Period (about 1650 BC) in Elkab and Nekhen. He is one of the very few Ancient Egyptian artists who is known...
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    Davies, Vivian (2003). "Sobeknakht of Elkab and the coming of Kush". Egyptian Archaeology. 23: 3–6. "Elkab's hidden treasure". Al-Ahram Weekly, 31 July-6...
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    Gautier, Achilles (2005). "Animal Mummies and Remains from the Necropolis of Elkab (Upper Egypt)". archaeofauna. 14: 139–170. Retrieved December 25, 2023....
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    Tomb Reveals Ancient Egypt's Humiliating Secret The Times (London, 2003) "Elkab's hidden treasure". Al-Ahram. Archived from the original on 2009-02-15. James...
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  • Mendes". In de Meulenaere, Herman; Hendrickx, Stan; Claes, Wouter (eds.). Elkab and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Luc Limme (in French). Leuven: Peeters...
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    44. A very similar inscription from possibly the same year was found at Elkab, which indicates the extension of a defensive wall built by Senusret II...
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  • Behdet/Wetjes-Hor (Edfu) Horus-Behdety 3 𓈸 nḫn Nekhen Shrine Nekhen (Hierakonpolis) Elkab Nekhebet 4 𓈹 wꜣst Waset Waset (Thebes) Luxor Sceptre Amun-Ra 5 𓈺 bjkwy/nṯrwy/ḥrwy...
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    building inscriptions and statues. Khufu's name appears in inscriptions at Elkab and Elephantine and in local quarries at Hatnub and Wadi Hammamat. At Saqqara...
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    of Shasu is in the biographical inscription of Admiral Ahmose found in Elkab, who claims to have taken Shasu prisoners while serving Pharaoh Aakheperenre...
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    king as manifesting, and under the protection of, the goddesses Nekhbet of Elkab and Hierakonpolis in Upper Egypt, and Wadjet of Buto in Lower Egypt. The...
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    Gautier, Achilles (2005). "Animal Mummies and Remains from the Necropolis of Elkab (Upper Egypt)". archaeofauna. 14: 139–170. Retrieved 25 December 2023. Hoffman...
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    IV. Khons was a daughter of the queen. She married a vizier coming from Elkab. This queen is only attested in Upper Egypt between Thebes and Elephantine...
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    Gautier, Achilles (2005). "Animal Mummies and Remains from the Necropolis of Elkab (Upper Egypt)". archaeofauna. 14: 139–170. Retrieved 25 December 2023. van...
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  • the nome of Nekhen, and is so far only known from his rock-cut tomb at Elkab, where he was buried. The tomb chapel was finely decorated with paintings...
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    at Kerma. The troops of Kerma are known to have raided as far north as Elkab according to an inscription of Sobeknakht II. According to his second stele...
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    the house of Khety to the north of Thinis". Hetepy was an official from Elkab who administered the three southernmost nomes of Intef II's realm. This...
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    Gautier, A. (2005), "Animal mummies and remains from the Necropolis of Elkab (Upper Egypt)", Archaeofauna, 14: 139–170 journal Bruce, M. D. (1999). "Family...
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    Gautier, Achilles (2005). "Animal Mummies and Remains from the Necropolis of Elkab (Upper Egypt)". archaeofauna. 14: 139–170. Retrieved 25 December 2023. Sax...
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  • related finds have been made farther to the south at Mahgar Dendera, Armant, Elkab and Nekhen (named Hierakonpolis by the Greeks), as well as to the east in...
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    lower half of a statue with the name of the king was discovered in 2015 in Elkab, a location possibly connected with expeditions to the Eastern desert and...
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    in Upper Egypt, more precisely in Abydos, Aswan, Tod, Armant, Gebelein, Elkab, Karnak and Denderah. At Abydos, a well preserved funerary chapel called...
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    in Dendera. Finally, yet another chapel is believed to have existed in Elkab, where rock inscriptions refer to his funerary cult. All these buildings...
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  • Dynasty) Senusret (vizier) Senusret (nomarch), 12th Dynasty nomarch at Elkab This page or section lists people that share the same given name. If an...
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    active even outside of Merenre's mortuary temple at Saqqara: inscriptions in Elkab attest to the presence of priests of this cult officiating in or in the...
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    cities of the country, namely Memphis, Heliopolis, Thebes, Abydos, Busiris, Elkab, Bouto, Coptos, Dendera and Edfou. The fourteen hymns have as their central...
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    adaptation hellénistique. 1989: Fouilles d’Elkab. III, les ostraca grecs (O. Elkab gr.). 1991: Pages d’épigraphie grecque. Attique-Égypte (1952-1982). Mons...
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