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The Aswan area at the dawn of Egyptian history (Egyptian Archaeology)

 

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Discovered in Aswan the earliest representation of an Egyptian King wearing the White Crown >>> A team from Yale University, University of Bologna and Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg (Belgium) has relocated and completed the first epigraphic and digital record of a site discovered almost a half century ago by the famous Egyptian Egyptologist Labib Habachi near Nag el-Hamdulab on the West Bank of the Nile to the north of Aswan. This new and thorough study has brought to light a previously unknown important Early Dynastic cycle of royal images, with an early hieroglyphic inscription as well. The site has been partially damaged in recent years but reconstruction in drawings and digital images of the main panel was possible thanks to new digital methodologies and to the availability of Dr. Habachi’s photos (now at the Chicago House in Luxor).
This group of images and the short inscription—carved around 3200 BCE, at the dawn of the dynastic period—record the earliest depiction of: a royal Jubilee complete of all the elements known from later documents; an Egyptian ruler wearing a recognizable crown of Egypt; “the following of Horus”, the royal court, as known in Early Dynastic accounts such as the Palermo Stone. The Nag el-Hamdulab scenes are unique, and bridge the world of the ritual Predynastic Jubilee in which images of power—predominately boats and animals—are the chief elements, and the world of the royal pharaonic Jubilee, in which the image of the human ruler dominates the events. The Nag el-Hamdulab cycle of images may be said to show the emergence of the ruler as supreme human priest and incarnate manifestation of human and divine power. The Nag el-Hamdulab cycle is the last of the old nautical Jubilee cycles of the Predyanstic Period, and the first of the pharaonic cycles over which the king, wearing the regalia of kingship—here the oldest form of the White Crown—presides. The Nag el-Hamdulab cycle is also the first of such images with a hieroglyphic annotation. That text refers to a vessel of the “Following,” probably the “Following of Horus,” and may therefore be the earliest record of tax collection we have from Egypt, and the first expression of royal economic control over Egypt and most probably also Nubia.
The Nag el-Hamdulab cycle of images probably dates to about 3200 BCE corresponding to the late Naqada period, in other words, the time between between King Scorpion (the owner of tomb Uj at Abydos)—first king of Dynasty 0—and Narmer—first ruler of Dynasty 1. The discovery is so important that it already figures in a new documentary series from Germany (currently on air on the satellite German TV channels ARTE and ZDF), which will soon be available worldwide.
The Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project – AKAP is a joint venture between Yale and University of Bologna, lead by Maria Carmela Gatto and Antonio Curci, with an international research team from various European and America countries, and Egypt. Now in its seventh season the project aims to survey and rescue the archaeology of the region between Aswan and Kom Ombo, in the southern part of Upper Egypt.

The epigraphic and digital study has been done by:
Prof. dr. John Coleman Darnell, Professor of Egyptology, Yale University
Dr. Stan Hendrickx, Professor of Art History, Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg, Belgium
Dr. Maria Carmela Gatto, Lecturer and Postdoctoral Associate in Egyptology, Yale University, AKAP Co-director
Dr. Antonio Curci, Assistant Professor of Archaeology, University of Bologna, AKAP Co-director
Alberto Urcia, Collaborator, University of Bologna
Merel Eyckerman, Draftswoman, Provinciale Hogeschool Limburg, Belgium
---Maria C. Gatto | Blog - Academia.edu | http://bit.ly/mlGtUR

---Related Event: Egypt at Its Origins 4 The Fourth International Conference on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt
July 26 – July 30, 2011 | Abstracts (preliminary) | http://bit.ly/lukU2S | Egypt at its Origins | http://bit.ly/lHF76e