“Libyan” or towns palette - Brown University...o Merimde Faiyum Ibrahim Awad 'Heliopolis 'Maadi...

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Gebel Tjauti rock inscription, Naqada IIIa

“Libyan” or towns palette

Gebel el Araq knife

Narmer Macehead

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Following of Horus Dates by calendar

Smiting the bowmen First occasion of the ‘adoring Horus of the sky’ festival; hacking up Shem-ra, hacking up Ha

Seth Peribsen and Horus and Seth Khasekhemwy

Jar inscription of Horus Khasekhem reading “year of fighting and smiting the northerners” found in temple deposit at Hierakonpolis

Wadi Maghara (Sinai) reliefs of Sekhemkhet, 3rd Dynasty

Temple relief (?) showing archers, 4th Dynasty? (reused in later building)

Running troops from a temple of Userkaf (probably his mortuary temple) 5th Dynasty