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7 5/8 x 10 1/4", 399 pp + fold-out map at again, Harper & Brothers in cooperation with the Metropolitan Museum of artwork, 1953 first. half I of a 'background for the research of the Egyptian Antiquities within the Metropolitan Museum of Art'. by means of William C Hayes.

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FIGURE 7. 23 3 THE PREDYNASTIC CULTURE OF LOWER EGYPT m hbÿ T' 1 %i u\ ;rrÿ' -- - m «ÿ 41 L 14. “Decorated” Predynastic pottery. H. in. 2%-i2 FIGURE Undecorated*jars and bowls of the same ware and also of a coarse, brown pottery were produced in great quantity for ordinary household use. vases of unsurpassed beauty and tech- nical excellence were turned out in large num¬ bers by the talented northerners (fig. 15). In these we find a great variety of shapes, sizes, and materials, the last including granite, diorite, basalt, serpentine, breccia, schist, marble, and nummulitic limestone.

Strings of beads, be hollowed out with relative ease, increased cut, drilled, and polished in all manner of hard enormously the production of this ware. stones, were worn as necklaces, bracelets, anklets, with the pear- and finets about the forehead. The materials of In the north we find the shaped head which was common in the eastern the beads and the various pendent ornaments Mediterranean world and which has already strung with them include chalcedony, sard, carbeen seen in the west Delta culture at Merim- nelian, turquoise, agate, quartz, serpentine, lapis deh.

Indeed, from now on the king was identified even in his lifetime with the god Horus and, in addition to his personal name, bore an official “Horus name,” written under the sign of the falcon (ÿ). of view the most interesting products of this last period of Egyptian prehistory are the carved ivory combs and knife handles and the carved slate commemorative palettes. Of the former the Museum is fortunate in possessing three out¬ standing examples: the top of a fine ivory in almost perfect condition (fig.

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