Abydos Tomb U-j
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The tomb U-j (thought to be that of King Scorpion I), c. 3400-3200 BCE, was discovered in 1988 in the royal cemetery of Umm el-Qaab (the burial site of the Predynastic kings of Egypt) near Abydos by Dr Günter Dreyer. The impressive amount of funerary goods in Tomb U-j included hundreds of imported jars from the area of Syria-Palestine, many wine and beer jars, ink-inscribed Wavy-handled jars, an ivory [heqa] sceptre, obsidian bowls, pieces of furniture, and fragments of ivory inscribed with animals. However, it is considered that the most important category of the finds were the more than 150 tags (labels) of different sizes, complete with writing. 34 pages, 1.5MB
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art & literature
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ancient history / egyptology / predynastic era / king scorpion
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