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THE LISTS OF KINGS: DYNASTY I

THE LISTS OF KINGS: DYNASTY I IN passing from the predynastic to the dynastic period we leave the interpretation of archaeological and   legendary material, and pass from the prehistoric to the historic age of Egypt. We now for the first time have ancient records to guide us, both contemporary and later. And it is only with the help of the later accounts that the contemporary monuments can be understood, for at first they are very difficult to comprehend, being archaic and unsettled in style and meaning. But about the time of the IVth and Vth Dynasties the nation attained its full measure of civilization, and Egyptian art and the Egyptian script assumed the form which is the framework, so to speak, on which all the later developments were fashioned. The statues and reliefs of the IVth Dynasty are as typically Egyptian in their own way as those of any later dynasty, but

Shabaka Stone

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On the Shabaka Stone the most remarkable monument of Egyptian thought which we possess general features, spatial semantics & general contents            portrait of Pharaoh Shabaka from the naos he erected in the temple of Esna XXVth Dynasty (712 - 698 BCE) by Wim van den Dungen associated papers : The Memphis Theology - The Creative Verb in Kemet TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 General features of the Shabaka Stone. 1.1 Physical parameters & layout. 1.2 Spatial semantics. 1.3 Contents. 2 The age of the inscription and its hermeneutical levels. 2.1 Extant text, original documents and original ideas. 2.2 Worm-eaten documents of the late New Kingdom. 2.3  A new composition of the Late Period. 3 The spirito-politic