#early dynastic

[blueiscoool]

AN EGYPTIAN ALABASTER BOWL EARLY DYNASTIC, DYNASTY I-III, CIRCA 3000-2648 B.C.

[bagdemagus]

Stone tablet with proto-cuneiform inscription Mesopotamia (Iraq), probably Girsu (modern Tello) Early Dynastic period, ca. 2750-2500 BCE

The text records allocations of land to various individuals, and it mentions the name of a certain Enhegal, who seems to bear the title “king (lugal) of Lagash,” but who is otherwise not attested in historical sources.

Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA, CBS 10000

https://www.penn.museum/collections/object/347463

[lionofchaeronea]

Ancient Egyptian libation dish (greywacke) depicting ka-arms presenting an ankh-symbol. Artist unknown; ca. 3100-2900 BCE (Early Dynastic period, 1st Dynasty). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

[windofmarduk]

[dam-nugig]

Due to the extremely fragmentary nature of the surviving data (both as concerns written sources and archaeological evidence), any understanding of the facts and the broader significance of that phase of Babylonia's history [Late Uruk - ED III] must to to a large extent be hypothetical, and, because of this, open to question and allowing alternative interpretations.

Steinkeller, P. 2017: History, Texts and Art in Early Babylonia. Three Essays. Boston/Berlin.

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[theancientwayoflife]

~ Palette. Place of origin: Egypt Period: Early Dynastic, 1st Dynasty Medium: Wood

[blueiscoool]

A small Egyptian alabaster jar inscribed for Hetep-Neith Early Dynastic, 1st Dynasty, circa 3100 B.C.

[bagdemagus]

Vessel stand Terracotta Ur, modern Tell al-Muqayyar (Iraq) Early Dynastic period, ca. 2500 BCE

Penn Museum, B17310