The earliest representations of royal power in Egypt: the rock drawings of Nag el-Hamdulab (Aswan)

• Autores: Stan Hendrickx, John Coleman Darnell, Maria Carmela Gatto
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 86, Nº 334, 2012, págs. 1068-1083
• Idioma: inglés
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  • The vivid engravings on vertical rocks at the desert site of Nag el-Hamdulab west of the Nile comprise a rock art gallery of exceptional historical significance. The authors show that the images of boats with attendant prisoners, animals and the earliest representation of a pharaoh offer a window on Dynasty 0, and depict the moment that the religious procession of pre-Dynastic Egypt became the triumphant tour of a tax-collecting monarch.