Professional Documents
Culture Documents
(British Museum)
Principal sources: W. Helck, Untersuchungen zur Thinitenzeit (1987), p.159, D. Wengrow, The invention
of writing in Egypt, in E. Teeter (ed.), Before the Pyramids, Oriental Institute Museum Publications 33,
Chicago (2011), and http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/hesyra/labels/xxden16.htm.
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For the meaning of the name, see King Dens Hippopotamus Ivory Sandal Label in this web site.
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Abydos, Umm el Qa'ab T; O.I. Chicago 6.126; Petrie R.T. I pl. 11.15; 15.17.
See A. D. Espinel, JEA, 91 (2005), pp. 55-70.
the following
xAsti or zmti (both are feminine duals) is
the (first attested) prenomen of King Den. (
zmt, desert,
necropolis, sometimes written only with the determinative
is also attested in the title imi-r smwt iAbtt, overseer of
the eastern deserts.) This prenomen
(with a t at the end)
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also occurs in several other jar labels:
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