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The name Narmer, written as a catfish within a serekh (royal name box), has been impressed with a large cylinder seal several times onto this conical jar lid. The chisel, the second element of Narmer's name and perhaps originally a title...

This is a part of a painted limestone stela with different colors. A man sits on a lion-legged chair before offerings and a offering table. There is one line of hieroglyphic inscription at the upper part with offering formula. From Abydos...

An ivory lable fragment depicting the Egyptian king Den (c. 2990 BCE) who ruled during the First Dynasty. He is the first ruler to be depicted wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. Abydos, Umm el Qaab, tomb T, the Tomb of Horus...

J. Sulpis del. et sc. SETI I BAS-RELIEF AT ABYDOS From A History of Art in Ancient Egypt, Vol. I by Georges Perrot and Charles Chipiez (1883).

A tombstone of the First Dynasty pharaoh Djet, reign c. 3000-2990 BCE. From Abydos, Egypt. (Louvre Museum, Paris)

Stela of Qeh, early 19th Dynasty, about 1250 BCE. Probably from Abydos, Egypt. The British Museum, (photo taken at The Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia) Priests made offerings of food and drink to both the gods and the dead. Here...

Currently located in the Louvre Museum, this Funerary stela was found at Abydos. It is an example of an Egyptian Royal Serekh from the 1st Dynasty. This writing format indicated that the name inside the rectangular enclosure was a royal name...

A section of a relief from a chapel in the Temple of Seti, depicting Horus holding three joined gold vases. Abydos, Egypt. 19th Dynasty (1292-1186 BCE). (Image cropped from original)

Hypocephali are inscribed discs usually of plastered linen and less frequently of papyrus or bronze, which were placed beneath the heads of mummies in the Late/Ptolemaic Periods. The texts written on them were taken from spell 162 of the...

This fragment of a stela shows two women before tablets of offerings. From Abydos, Late Middle Kingdom, circa 1750 BCE. (National Museum of Ireland-Archaeology, Dublin, Republic of Ireland)