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INDEX
Page numbers in bold refer to figures.
A-Group 47, 48, 54, 176–7, 180, 181, 182
Abadiya 49
Abu Rawash 71, 76, 225, 362;
boat burials 25, 257;
brick pyramid 102, 247;
excavations at 13, 15;
objects from 159, 283, 291
Abu Umuri 161
Abusir 76, 80, 81, 359, 360–1
Abusir el-Meleq 176 Abydos:
Cemetery B 53, 55, 234;
Cemetery U 31–2, 40, 48, 57, 188, 227
(see also tomb U-j);
excavations at 3–5, 19–20, 22–3, 25–6, 338;
region 323, 352–5, 353;
temple 288, 304, 306, 313–15, 355
(see also votive offerings); town 40, 338–9, 355;
see also Deir Sitt Damiana; funerary enclosures; Shunet ez-Zebib;
Umm el-Qaab Abydos south 104, 278
accession and coronation, ceremonies connected with 68, 209–10 Adaïma 266, 349
Adjib see Anedjib administration 62, 109–49, 343;
of the economy 116–33
(see also treasury);
of foreign conquests 143–4, 152, 154, 157, 166;
origins of 111–13;
of peripheral regions 135, 143, 149;
priorities of 113–14;
of the provinces 135, 139–42;
of royal foundations 122–3, 140; source material for 110–11; structure of 145
Afridar 152
Aha, King 57, 66, 70–1, 202;
and administration 125;
and cult practices 266, 280, 281, 301–2;
and developments in mortuary architecture 224, 238; inscribed objects of 314, 318, 337;
and Menes 68;
Naqada label of 203, 292, 297;
and relations with the Near East 153, 159, 161, 164;
and relations with Nubia 179, 180, 223;
royal visits 221, 222, 281, 291, 317, 320;
tomb complex of 3, 70, 233, 234–5
Ai 159
Akhetaa (official) 102–3, 110, 132, 133, 136
Akhmim 296
Amélineau, B.C. 4–5, 281
Amka (official) 73, 121, 146
Amuq 158
Anedjib, King 78–9, 212, 239;
and administration 121, 124, 127, 130;
and foreign relations 153, 155, 161, 164;
names and titles o
f 203, 206;
and royal iconography 188, 275, 276;
tomb of 78, 233, 236–7, 257
annals (Cairo fragment) 65; census114;
of Den 76, 77, 216, 275, 281, 284, 289, 294, 298, 305, 325;
Djebaut shrine 318–19;
of Djer 71, 297;
fashioning of divine images 268, 287, 291, 294; ‘following of Horus’ 142;
as an historical source 50, 64–6; and Huni104;
of Khasekhemwy 93, 94, 275;
Nile levels 83;
of Ninetjer 85, 292, 295;
royal titulary 200, 207; reconstruction and study of 16; religious festivals 300, 301;
royal rituals 205, 210, 211, 279;
of Semerkhet 79, 281, 291, 296;
as a source for early kingship 218–23 Anti (deity) 198, 279–80, 315
Anubis (deity) 148, 262, 263, 280–1, 297
Apis (deity) 77, 85, 281, 300 appearance of the king 209–12 Armant:
in the Predynastic period 30;
rock-cut inscriptions near 56, 84, 173, 174;
shrine 306, 312, 314;
town 328, 336
Ash (deity) 99, 117, 189, 263, 282
Asyut 297
‘Athothis’, King 67, 235
‘Ba’, King 82
Badari 83;
as cult centre of Anti 279–80; region 356–7;
shrine 306, 315
Badarian 29, 30, 34, 170, 333, 352
badges of status 29–30
Bastet (deity) 263, 264, 282, 340
Bat (deity) 15, 262, 263, 282–3, 291;
see also Hathor Behdet 287
Beit Khallaf: excavations at 5;
seal impressions from 90, 95, 101, 102, 128, 132, 139, 140, 198, 208, 298;
Third Dynasty mastabas 6, 97, 324, 355
Beni Amir 24
Berenice 169
Bir Abbad 169 bread and beer 153;
see also secondary products Brink, E.van den 22
Bubastis 41–2, 282, 325, 340
Buhen 180–1, 288
bull’s tail 190–1
Busiris nome 140 Buto:
bull cult at 281, 317–18;
as cult centre of Wadjet 200, 203, 222, 297;
Early Dynastic building 317, 342;
Djebaut ( b wt) shrine 69, 221, 306, 317–20, 319;
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