Naga ed-Deir in the First Intermediate Period

Beginning in 1901, George A. Reisner conducted a number of excavating campaigns in the neighbourhood of the modern village of Naga ed-Dêr in Upper Egypt, opposite the ancient city of Thinis, at first for the Hearst Expedition of the University of California (up to 1905) and thereafter for the Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition. Naga ed-Dêr is important because of a series of ancient cemeteries extending in time from the Predynastic period to the Middle Kingdom. These cemeteries run for about six kilometres from Sheikh Farag on the north to Mesheikh on the south and form parts of a single large cemetery of the Thinite nome UE 8. In the course of the excavations at Naga ed-Dêr, Reisner discovered in addition extensive remains of the First Intermediate period-decorated tombs, steles, and inscribed coffins-belonging to the period extending from the end of the Sixth to the Eleventh Dynasties. The Predynastic, Early Dynastic, and Old Kingdom material from Naga ed-Dêr has been studied and published by Reisner and Arthur C. Mace and by Albert M. Lythgoe and Dows Dunham. Dows Dunham published seventy-five steles from Reisner's excavations in 1937. This volume endeavours to date the material found by Reisner, including the inscribed stones published by Dunham, with a view to elucidating the history of the site in the period between the Old and Middle Kingdoms. Furthermore, a number of steles seen on the art market or in museums or private collections which, by their style, belong clearly to Naga ed-Dêr, have been added as supplementary material.

Table of Contents:
PREFACE LIST OF TABLES LIST OF FIGURES LIST OF PLATES LIST OF COLOR PLATES ABBREVIATIONS 1. INTRODUCTION 2.  HISTORICAL BACKGROUND 3.  THE TOPOGRAPHY OF THE THINITE NOME 4. THE GODS OF THE THINITE NOME      Anubis      Khentyamentiu      Onuris      Osiris      Wepwawet 5. THE TEMPLE AT THINIS 6. THE HIGH OFFICIALS OF THE OLD KINGDOM      Dynasty 5      Dynasty 6 and later      The Gebrawi Nomarchs      The Nomarchs at the Residence 7. INSCRIPTIONS OF DYNASTIES 5–6      Cemetery 500-900      Dunham 51 and 68 8.  INDICATIONS FOR DATING      Introductory Considerations      The Late Old Kingdom (Dynasties 6–8)      Stylistic and Iconographic Indications      Palaeographic and Epigraphic Indications      The Early Heracleopolitan Period (Dynasty 9)      Stylistic and Iconographic Indications      Palaeographic and Epigraphic Indications      Early Dynasty 10 and Early Dynasty 11      Stylistic and Iconographic Indications      Palaeographic and Epigraphic Indications      Late Dynasty 10 and Late Dynasty 11      Stylistic and Iconographic Indications      Palaeographic and Epigraphic Indications 9.  DYNASTIES 6–8 Introduction The Other Inscriptions of Dynasties 6–8 The Coffins of Dynasties 6–8 10.  THE NOMARCHS AND OVERSEERS OF PRIESTS OF DYNASTY 9 AND LATER  11.  DYNASTY 9 Introduction The Stele Groups of Dynasty 9 The Red Group The Blue Group The Polychrome Group The Green Group The Other Inscriptions of Dynasty 9 The Anomalous Group The Other Steles of Dynasty 9 12.  EARLY DYNASTIES 10 AND 11 Introduction The Stele Groups of Early Dynasties 10 and 11 The Other Steles of Early Dynasties 10 and 11 13.  LATE DYNASTIES 10 AND 11 Introduction The Stele Groups of Late Dynasties 10 and 11 Settgast's Group The Other Steles of Late Dynasties 10 and 11 14.  SELECT COFFINS FROM NAGA ED-DER 15.  SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS Appendices A.  ASWAN B. GEBELEIN IN THE FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD AND DYNASTY 11 C.  THE TOMB AT HAGARSA D.  THE DATE OF ANKHTIFY AT MOALLA E.  ELEVENTH DYNASTY STELES IN THE THEBAN STYLE BIBLIOGRAPHY Indices 1.     Inscribed Coffins 2.     Royal Names 3.     Divinities 4.     Personal Names 5.     Names Elsewhere 6.     Place Names 7.     Titles 8.     Signs 9.     General Index 10.Words, phrases, grammatical elements 11.Museum Numbers

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