The earliest representations of royal power in Egypt: the rock drawings of Nag el-Hamdulab (Aswan)
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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.
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The monopoly over force and threat of violence is unambiguously portrayed in visual culture, including ceremonial palettes and rock art at Nag el-Hamdulab and Gebel Tjauti.
“It is, however, unambiguously portrayed in visual culture, not just on ceremonial palettes but also in rock art, such as a tableau depicting a king with a retinue of boats at Nag el-Hamdulab in Aswan (Hendrickx et al. 2012) and the Gebel Tjauti Rock inscriptions in the Western Desert that show bound captives and the sprawled bodies of defeated enemies (Friedman et al. 2002a).”
From The Egyptian Predynastic and State Formation (2016) · cites this paper as Hendrickx et al. 2012
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“It is, however, unambiguously portrayed in visual culture, not just on ceremonial palettes but also in rock art, such as a tableau depicting a king with a retinue of boats at Nag el-Hamdulab in Aswan (Hendrickx et al. 2012) and the Gebel Tjauti Rock inscriptions in the Western Desert that show bound captives and the s…”
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- Authors
- Hendrickx, S., Darnell, J. C., & Gatto, M. C.
- Affiliations
- Hasselt University (BE)
- Yale University (US)
- Venue
- Antiquity
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2012-12
- Volume
- 86
- Issue
- 334
- Pages
- 1068-1083
- ISSN
- 0003-598X (ISSN-L)
- 1745-1744
- OpenAlex
- W2263681188
- Cited by
- 28
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 5 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 4.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Antiquity (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology › Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
- Social Sciences › Archeology › Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Classical Antiquity Studies
- Keywords
- rock art, Predynastic Egypt, royal authority, Pharaoh, religious processions, boats, prisoners, animals, Aswan
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