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Saqqara ostracon

The Saqqara ostracon is an ostracon, an Egyptian antiquity tracing to the period of Djoser (2650 BC).[1]

  1. ^ Battiscombe Gunn (1926). "AN ARCHITECT'S DIAGRAM OF THE 3RD DYNASTY". Retrieved 30 April 2016.

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Saqqara ostracon

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The Saqqara ostracon is an ostracon, an Egyptian antiquity tracing to the period of Djoser (2650 BC). It was excavated in or near 1925 in Djoser's Pyramid...

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Ostracon

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actual shape is technically a "weighted catenary". The unfinished Saqqara ostracon has a catenary shape. Marquette Plaza in Minneapolis used catenary...

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Beja. Francis Llewellyn Griffith identified the language of an ostracon discovered at Saqqara as "probably in the Blemmye language." Nubiologist Gerald M...

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Glossary of ancient Egypt artifacts

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mummification Naos – religious shrine; portable shrine for carrying a god Ostracon – pottery sherd, limestone Sherd, used as writing material Cosmetic palette...

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Ancient Egyptian literature

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for communicating with the gods. There is evidence from an educational ostracon found in the tomb of Senenmut (TT71) that formulaic graffiti writing was...

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Abydos boats

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known to be used to reach the Red Sea from Upper Egypt. A sketch on an ostracon found at[data missing] depicts priests carrying the solar barque of Amun...

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Step pyramid

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earliest Egyptian pyramids were step pyramids. In the First Dynasty at Saqqara, a large step pyramid like structure was found within the interior of Mastaba...

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Tahtib

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Textbook of Aramaic Documents from Ancient Egypt

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http://www.jstor.org/stable/544400 Porten, B., & Yardeni, A. (1993). Ostracon Clermont-Ganneau 125(?): A Case of Ritual Purity. Journal of the American...

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Egyptian geometry

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The area of the circle is 433.7. The ostracon depicting this diagram was found near the Step Pyramid of Saqqara. A curve is divided into five sections...

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Ancient Egyptian units of measurement

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using simple measures along an arc. The ostracon depicting this diagram was found near the Step Pyramid of Saqqara. A curve is divided into five sections...

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Pyramid of Neferirkare

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on the highest site at the necropolis of Abusir, found between Giza and Saqqara, and still towers over the necropolis. The pyramid is also significant...

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or pointing to one of the answers written on a piece of papyrus or an ostracon. A combination of favorable geographical features contributed to the success...

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Pyramid of Neferefre

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south-west of Neferirkare's pyramid in the Abusir necropolis, between Saqqara and the Giza Plateau. It is seated on the Abusir diagonal, a figurative...

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List of languages by first written account

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Champaign: Stipes. ISBN 978-1-58874-275-9. Wedekind, Klaus (2010). "More on the Ostracon of Browne's Textus Blemmyicus". Annali dell'Università Degli Studi di Napoli...

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Neferirkare Kakai

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1279–1213 BCE), Neferirkare's prenomen was recorded on the 27th entry of the Saqqara Tablet, but this time as a successor of Sahure and predecessor of Shepseskare...

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Functions of the Pharaoh

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naturally manifested in the funerary architecture of the necropolises of Giza, Saqqara and the Valley of the Kings. The Pyramid Texts, while being funerary writings...

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Amenemhat IV

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Gawasis on the Red Sea coast notes the finding of two wooden chests and an ostracon inscribed with a hieratic text mentioning an expedition to the fabled Land...

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Canaanite and Aramaic inscriptions

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1900 In situ 265 Adon Papyrus 1 1942 Saqqara Egyptian Museum 266 II 21 Saqqara Aramaic Stele 1 1877 482 BC Saqqara destroyed 267 II 122 448a1 71 II 23...

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Hauron

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"upper" and "lower" Beth Horon. Beth-Horon is also mentioned in a Hebrew ostracon from Tell Qasile and in an Egyptian topographical list from the reign of...

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Pyramid of Sahure

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 186. Verner 2001d, p. 284. Bárta 2015. Sampsell 2000, Vol 11, No. 3 The Ostracon. Verner 2002, pp. 50–52. Lehner 2008, p. 147. Verner 1994, p. 139. Verner...

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