A new royal name sealing from Tell Edfu

Zeitschrift fur Agyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 150-154

  Moeller, Nadine ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Amenemhat III; Edfu; Middle Kingdom; Seal Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053237732     PISSN: 0044216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1524/zaes.2009.0017     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. See N. Moeller, "Tell Edfu: uncovering a provincial capital", EA 31 (2007): 14-17. Preliminary reports for each season are available at http://www.telledfu.org.
2. One contemporary example has been discovered at the town of Elephantine, see C. von Pilgrim, Elephantine XVIII. Untersuchungen in der Stadt des Mittleren Reiches und der Zweiten Zwischenzeit, AV 91 (Mainz am Rhein, 1996), pp. 85-87, figs. 15-17.
3. W. B. Emery, H. S. Smith, and A. Millard, The Fortress of Buhen. The Archaeological Report, Excavations at Buhen I, EM 94 (London, 1979), pp. 9, 47-48, pls. 16, 63.
4. The two remaining ones had very weathered backs and seem to have been peg-sealings, too. See also J. Wegner, The Mortuary Temple of Senwosret III at Abydos, Publications of the Pennsylvania-Yale-Institute of Fine Arts/NYU Expedition to Egypt 8, (New Haven and Philadelphia, 2007), pp. 300-304, figs. 135, 136
5. A. L. Fos ter, "Some Middle Kingdom Sealing Types from the Harvard-Boston Expedition to Mirgissa, 1931-1932", CRIPEL 22 (2001): 132-133, pl. 11.
6. Wegner, Senwosret III, p. 313.
7. D. Ben-Tor, "Two Royal-Name Scarabs of King Amenemhat II from Dahshur", MMJ 39 (2004), p. 26
8. D. Ben-Tor, J. P. Al len and S. Al len, "Review: Seals and Kings," BASOR 315 (1999), pp. 53-54.
9. Ben-Tor, Scarabs, Chronology and Interconnections, pp. 36-37.
10. Ben-Tor, Scarabs, Chronology, and Interconnections, p. 38, pl. 20
11. W. M. Flinders Petrie, Scarabs and Cylinders with names, BSAE 21 (London, 1917), pls. XIII, XIV;
12. M. Bietak, "Seal Impressions from the Middle till the New Kingdom. A Problem for Chronological Research", in M. Bietak and E. Czerny, eds., Scarabs of the Second Millennium BC from Egypt, Nubia, Crete and the Levant: Chronological and Historical implications, ÖAW 35 (Wien, 2004), p. 49, fig. 11.
13. Bietak, Seal impressions, p. 49.
14. J. von Beckerath, Handbuch der Ägyptischen Königsnamen, MÄS 49 (München, 1999), pp. 94-95.
15. This was already noted by K. Sethe, Ägyptische Lesestücke zum Gebrauch im akademischen Unterricht. Texte des Mittleren Reiches (Leipzig, 1924), p. 76.