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The dynasty
0 would count several kings, whose authority
spread presumably only
on a part
of Egypt. It spreads from the
period Nagada IIIA1 (about 3300 A.D. ) to Nagada IIIB (about 3100 B.C.). The following kings have been
identified: Scorpion, Iry-Hor, Ka
(Sekhen),
a king Scorpion II to whom it would be necessary to attribute the famous club
and Narmer, the unifying king (cf. Gaelle Breand). All, except the king again debated Scorpion II,
have their
tombs in Abydos (Umm-el-Qab).
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The tomb of king Scorpion
It is the first tomb
of a big dimension constructed in bricks: it is a rectangle of 9,10
x 7, 3 m divided
in 12 chambers. Pots to wavy shackles bear in the black ink the first hieroglyphic inscriptions: a
plant stem and
the picture of
animals whose scorpion is the most frequent. Have been discovered more than 750 pots imported from the South Levant
South containing wine or fig sugar. 90 labels made of bone, wood or ivory with incised signs reveal the emergence of the writing. Other remarkable discovery: an ivory heka scepter , that will remain
the mark of
royalty. The king Scorpion reigned around 3300-3250 B.C.
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Pots of
the Museum of
Louvre with inscriptions like those of the king Scorpion
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The exchanges between Egypt and South Levant seem to have been precocious enough, to one time before
the dynasty 0. Discoveries of potteries belonging
at the two regions along the north coast of
Sinai constitute the testimony that a
inshore road so-called road of
Horus during the
historic period was
used then already. Pots of Levant appear in the tomb U-k in small number and
in big number
in the one of
the king Scorpion. An Egyptian colony in South Levant
is attested at
this time. Did the Egyptians act in conquerors, leading some raids or in tradesmen
interested by the products of
the country (wine, olive oil, wax of bees)? The question is debated again.
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click here for [mace of king Scorpion II]
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