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This article focuses on the idiosyncratic representations of demonic entities that wield knives on their feet or secondary limbs. Beginning in the New Kingdom, they appear occasionally on rings or seals, but more usually on household furniture such as beds, chairs and headrests. This particular iconography is rare not only in Ancient Egyptian art but in representations of liminal entities in other cultures. The goal of this discussion is to share preliminary analyses of this foot-knife demon icon in terms of its context, the nature of the weapon itself, and the pose.
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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 Predynastic Egypt became the triumphant tour of a tax-collecting monarch.
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In this article I relate the Heit el-Ghurab (HeG, Wall of the Crow) 4th Dynasty settlement site to the idea that long-term pyramid towns did not originate in temporary workers settlements. Components of the HeG settlement fit attributes of both types of settlement, which Egyptologists infer from texts and archaeological information from other sites. During its time, people may have called the HeG the Southern Tjeniu (bank settlement) of the Pyramid, Great is Khafre (§njw rcj Wr ¢a.f Ra). Under this name, the HeG comprised a kind of proto-pyramid city. Its counterpart, the Northern Grg.t...
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The so-called 'Cave of Beasts' in the Wadi Sura region of the Gilf Kebir Plateau in southwestern Egypt, close to the Libyan border, is one of the most important prehistoric rock art sites in northern Africa. With an estimated total of c. 8000 individual images, concentrated on a wall area of some 120 square metres and comparatively well preserved, it is one of the richest single rock art sites in the world. Within the scope of the Wadi Sura Project (2009–2015; cf. http://wadisura.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de), the shelter's entire rock art imagery, dated to between c. 6500 and 4400 calBC, has been... |
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