Nagada and Ballas |
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Abydos alabaster Algerian Amorite arms ash-jars ashes Ballas basalt beads belong black-topped blue glaze body lay bones bowl brick broken carnelian cemetery chamber chipped cist clay coarse hand-made colour contained contracted burial contracted position copper decorated desert earth edge Egypt Egyptian face feet figures filled flakes flint foreign forms fragments grave hæmatite handle head inches incised ivory IVth Koptos large circular pot large number later leather legs Libyan limestone lying malachite mastaba Medum Middle Kingdom mouth Naqada necklace Nile normal Nubt objects Old Kingdom painted pattern pebbles plundered pottery probably Quibell Race red and black red polished red pottery remains rough round S.E. corner sand scarab sebakh shape shell shew shewn side skeleton skull lay staircase tombs stairway steatite steatopygous stone vases surface syenite Temple of Set town tumuli undisturbed vertebræ ware wavy-handled jars XIIth dynasty XVIIIth