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- 1Archaic or Thinite PeriodKings originated from Thinis
Kings ruled from Delta to 1st cataract - 2Thinite KingsTombs of all Dyn.1 and some Dyn.2 kings identified at Abydos
Historical information from funerary stelae, votive palettes, ceremonial maceheads, small ivory, wood or bone labels originally attached to elite funerary equipment - 3Hor-AhaFirst king of Dyn. 1
62-year reign
?Killed by a hippopotamus
Added a new title to royal titulary: nebti or Two Ladies Name - 4Royal TitlesHorus Name: Serekh
Nebti Name: "He of the Two Ladies": Goddess Wadjet (Cobra of Lower Egypt, vulture of Upper Egypt)
Golden Horus Name
Throne Name or Prenomen
Birth Name or Nomen - 5Hor-AhaIvory label showing nebti name which is "Mn"
Some scholars identify Aha with Menes - 6MemphisWhite Walls, Ineb-hedj
Seat of political power during Thinite period
Nile was dammed and city built on reclaimed land
Cult of Sobek, crocodile god
Neithhotep: "May Neith be Appeased"
Campaigns to Nubia and Libya - 7King DenSuccessful and prosperous reign
Several Asiatic campaigns
Internal policy of reconciliation
First king shown wearing combined crown
Followed by 3 ephemeral kings
End of Dyn. 1 obscured - 8Royal TitularyKing Den adds nsw bity name "He of the Sedge and the Bee" (Throne Name of Prenomen)
- 9Dyn. 2 MemphisLess well known
Centre of power remained at Memphis
2 later kings buried at Abydos, burial place of first few kings unknown - 10Hetepsekhemwy"The Two Powers are at Peace"
Another indication of unrest in early Dyn. 2 following confusion at end of Dyn. 1
Cult of Ra established - 11Sekhemib-PeribsenFirst called Sekhemib but changed name to Seth-Peribsen
Evidence of tensions between north and south
Removed Horus from his Serekh and replaced him with Seth - 12KasekhemwyThe two powerful ones appear
Places Horus and Seth on Serekh
Several rebellions
Tomb V at Abydos
Burial chamber of Quarried limestone
Father of King Djoser, Dyn. 3 - 13Development of Egyptian KingshipPharaoh as shepherd: shemset apron
Bull's tail
Crook and flail
False beard (goat)
Divine king with absolute power
Head of a strong central government - 14MastabaArabic for mud bench
Origin of Facade pattern on serekhs - 15Human SacrificeDagger stuck into chest of a bearded man with hands bound behind his back
Bowl to catch blood
Similar scene found on an ivory label fragment of Aha from Abydos
Practice completely abandoned by end of Dyn.1 - 16BureaucracyCountry was completed dependent upon irrigation which was managed by a series of technocrats
2 Controllers of the Granaries
Government was strongly centralized and stable
food and cloth was redistributed to officials and state workers in addition to a royal distributive network
Three types of land ownership: crownland; land owned by cults; privately owned land - 17ScribesSteward Khai reads an inventory from a papyrus prepared by funerary scribes shown with palettes, pointed erasers on cords, water-pots, pens and papyrus rolls
Scribes were the most influential group in the bureaucracy
Learned class who could read, write, mathematical and engineering computations
System of weights and measures
Decimal system - 18Early Lunar CalendarCivil year (solar)
Original lunar calendar for religious festivals - 19Earliest WritingEarliest Evidence c. 3400 BC, but first
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