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=ON Amanimalel

Amanimalel
Queen consort of Nubia
Grantie statue of Amanimalel from Jebel Barkal, now in the National Museum of Sudan
Burial	Nuri (Nuri 29)
Spouse	Uncertain, possibly Senkamanisken
Dynasty	25th Dynasty of Egypt

Amanimalel (also known as Amanimalil) was a Kushite queen of Egypt an Nubia, likely a spouse of king Senkamanisken, c. 643–623 BC.

Titles

She bore the title of "Beloved of Amun of Napta who resides in the sacred mountain"

Attestations

A lifesize statue of the queen was uncovered in 1916 in a cache at the Gebel Barkal temple B 500, by a joint expedition Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts. A second, very similar quartzite statue now at the Neues Museum is thought to belong to her owing to the high similarity.

References

Category:8th-century BC women Category:Queens consort of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of Egypt Category:8th-century BC Egyptian people

ON Barta

Miroslav Bárta (born the 25th December 1969) is a Czech Egyptologist and archaeologist. Since 2011, he leads the excavation works on the site of Abusir, which served as the royal necropolis during the early to mid Fifth Dynasty. Since 2013 he is the director of the Czech Institute of Egyptology.

Biography

Miroslav Bárta graduated from Jan Neruda Grammar School in Prague in 1988. He then studied prehistoric and early medieval archeology as well as Egyptology at Charles University, becoming a full time member of the Czech Institute of Egyptology in Prague and Cairo in 1993 and completing his degree a year later in 1994. He subsequently embarked onto a Ph.D in Egyptology, studying in both Prague and Hamburg, which he successfully defended in 1997.

Three year later in 2000, he became deputy director of the Czech National Centre for Egyptology, a position which he kept until 2004. He completed his habilitation in Egyptology in 2002, and received the prize of the Swiss Foundation Fondation Michael Schiff Giorgini in 2000 and 2004. In 2003, he was given a tenure track position as Associate Professor in Egyptology, Charles University, Prague;

, since 2003 he is a lecturer in the field of Egyptology. In 2003-2004 he was a Fulbright scholarship , the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Between 2000 and 2004, he was awarded the prize of the Swiss Foundation Fondation Michael Schiff Giorgini in 2000 and 2004, and in 2008 he was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung fellowship at the Freie Universität in Berlin, the director of the Czech National Egipto Center . In 2009 he was appointed Professor of Egyptology and in 2011 he was awarded the Rector of Charles University in Prague for the beginning of the year (with M. Kovář) for the monograph Collapse and Regeneration, in 2012 the award of Bedřich Hrozný University in Prague for archaeological discoveries in Abusir and development multidisciplinary research. In 2014, he was a guest professor at Marilyn and William K. Simpson, American University, Cairo .

In August 2015, Bárta signed the petition Scientists Against Fear and Indifference , which responded to anti-immigration and anti-Muslim moods in Czech society. [1]

Except Egyptology, where, among other things, it focuses on the period of the pyramid builders, history and archeology. BC. Kr., Has also been studying the so-called " collapse, ups and downs in the interdisciplinary perspective of research. As a result of his work in this area, the authors' collections titled "Something Beautiful" End (2008), Collapse and Regeneration (2011) and Civilization and History (2013).

At the end of 2016 he became a member of the STAN movement. [2]

On sahure

Sahure is mentioned a list of kings known as the "Karnak king list" and inscribed on the walls of the Karnak temple during the reign of Thutmose III of the 18th Dynasty. Unlike other ancient Egyptian king lists, the kings are not listed in chronological order

these are not a complete list of all rulers, but a selection list that lists only the kings, for during the reign of Thutmose III. Sacrifices were offered. Probably because there is a connection between this list and since the Middle Kingdom established in Karnak royal statues, it can be assumed that Sahure cult of the dead, both in the Middle and New Kingdom had continued inventory. [29]

In the 19th dynasty led Khaemwaset, a son of Ramesses II. Nationwide restoration projects. This included numerous pyramids, including the Sahure, as is known by inscriptions on stone cladding. [32] [28]

During and after the New Kingdom, the mortuary temple of Sahure served as a sanctuary for the goddess Sekhmet and was regularly visited as shown by grafitto inscribed on several reliefs. In the second part of the 18th Dynasty and during the 19th Dynasty numerous visitors left inscriptions, stelae and statues in the temple. From the 26th dynasty certificates are handed down. The most recent date from the Ptolemaic period. [34] [35]

Sewoserenere Senusret V

The German Egyptologist Jürgen von Beckerath attributes the Gebel Tjauti Rock inscription No.11 which relates the heliacal rise of Sothis and dating to a Year 11, 20 Shemu II to king Seuserenre. The inscription which has been dated to the period around 1593-1590 BC -deep within the Second Intermediate Period— If correct, this would place Seuserenre's reign in the period from 1603 or 1600 BC to 1591 or 1588 BC. His prenomen, Seuserenre, means "He whom Ra causes to be strong".

Sehetepre

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Nebiririau II

Nebiriau II
Nebiryraw, Neberaw, Nebirieraw, Nebitau[...]
Pharaoh
Reign	reign starting c. 1601 BC
Predecessor	Nebiryraw I
Successor	Semenre
Royal titulary
Burial	probably at Dra' Abu el-Naga'
Dynasty	16th dynasty (Kim Ryholt), 17th dynasty (Jürgen von Beckerath)

Neferkare Nebiriau II was the seventh king of the 16th dynasty or 17th Theban dynasty which ruled over Upper Egypt during the late Second Intermediate Period. He is commonly assumed by some Egyptologists to be the son of Nebiryraw I, his predecessor given the rarity of the name Nebiriau in Egyptian historical sources. Unlike his presumed father who ruled Upper Egypt for 26 years, he was an obscure king who is completely unattested by contemporary archaeological sources. Nebiriau II was succeeded by an equally obscure king named Semenre who is attested by a single axe—inscribed his prenomen—and then by Seuserenre Bebiankh who is given 12 years in the Turin Canon.

References

DEFAULTSORT:Nebiriau 02 Category:Pharaohs of the Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt

Intef I

Intef I
Inyotef I
Serekh reading "Horus Sehertawy", inscribed posthumously for him in the Temple of Montu, Egyptian Museum.
Pharaoh
Reign	4 to 16 years, c. 2120 BC
Predecessor	Mentuhotep I
Successor	Intef II
Royal titulary Horus name Sehertawy Shr-tȝ.wy Maker of peace in the two Lands Nomen Sa-Re Intef Sȝ-rˁ-in-it.f Son of Ra, Intef (litt. His father brought him)
Father	uncertain, most probably Mentuhotep I
Mother	Neferu I
Burial	Saff tomb at El-Tarif known as "Saff el-Dawba"
Dynasty	11th dynasty

Intef I was a local nomarch at Thebes during the early First Intermediate Period and the first member of the 11th dynasty to lay claim to a Horus name. Intef reigned from 4 to 16 years c. 2120 BC and was buried in a saff tomb at El-Tarif.

Biography

He was the first of his dynasty to assume the title of Pharaoh, with the Horus name of Sehertawy variously rendered as He who has brought calm to the two Lands, Pacifier of the two lands. Intef was most probably the son of Mentuhotep I and Neferu I.

His authority was contested by the other nomarchs of Egypt, chief among them being the Tenth dynasty at Herakleopolis Magna and Ankhtifi, the well known nomarch of Hierakonpolis who was a faithful follower of the Heraklepolitan dynasty. On his accession to the throne, Intef probably ruled little more than the surrounding areas of his capital but he had gained control over Koptos, Dendera and the three nomes of Hierakonpolis by the end of his reign after apparently winning a victory over Ankhtifi or this nomarch's successor.

The duration of his reign is lost in a lacuna of the Turin canonnot known for certain, be

but must have been less than 16 years since the damaged Turin Canon papyrus assigns this figure to the combined reigns of both Mentuhotep and Intef I. He was succeeded by his brother, Intef II.

References

DEFAULTSORT:Intef 01 Category:Pharaohs of the Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt Category:Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt

Montuhotepi

Sankhenre Mentuhotep VI was a Pharaoh of Egypt of the 16th or 17th Theban dynasty based in Upper Egypt during the Second Intermediate Period. He was the successor of Neferhotep III and is assigned a reign of 1 year in the Turin Canon. Mentuhotep VI is attested by a single stela from Thebes. In this document, Mentuhotep VI emphatically states: "I am the king within Thebes, this is my city."

His predecessor was Sekhemre Sankhtawy Neferhotep III. Mentuhotep VI himself was succeeded by Nebiryraw I who ruled Upper Egypt for more than 25 years.

References

DEFAULTSORT:Mentuhotep 06 Category:Pharaohs of the Sixteenth Dynasty of Egypt

Reign

Huni is a well attested pharaoh, even though the only surviving monument firmly datable to his reign is a gray granite slab discovered in 1909 on the island of Elephantine. The slab bears Huni's cartouche and the name of a palace or fortress Ṣmss-Ḥr („Shemses Hor“), which Huni established to secure the southern border of Egypt at the First Cataract.

Huni is attested in mastaba L6 at Saqqara, attributed to the offical Metjen and dating to the end of the 3rd Dynasty. There an inscription mentions a royal domain Hw.t-njswt.-hw („Hut-nisut-hu“) of Huni. Huni is also mentionned on the back of the Palermo stone

In the mastaba of senior officials Metjen (L6 mastaba at Saqqara, the end of the 3rd Dynasty) is a royal palace with the domain-Hw.t njswt.. - mentioned hw ("Hut-nisut-hu") of Huni. further [1] in Huni is mentioned on the back of the famous Palermosteins. Under the rule of Neferirkare (5th Dynasty) Huni should honor a mortuary temple have been donated. This building, however, could so far not be located.

Huni's vizier was a man named Kagemni.

Huni is sometimes also credited with building a great stepped pyramid at Meidum which was to be larger than that of Djoser. It was supposedly left unfinished at the time of his death, thus his successor Sneferu, it is said, completed it near the beginning of his reign. If this view arises from the desire amongst historians to have a significant monument attributed to Huni, there is no evidence that the Meidum pyramid was his burial place. The name of Sneferu, however, has been found at Meidum, and many of Sneferu's children, particularly princes Nefermaat and Rahotep, have been buried in mastabas at the Meidum necropolis. Thus it seems more likely that it was Sneferu who had the pyramid built and, later on during his reign, transformed it from the stepped pyramid into a true pyramid by having its sides smoothed. The pyramid has since collapsed, leaving only its core.

Another pyramid exists which was very likely built by Huni, but this is a small ceremonial pyramid. The ruins of this pyramid have been found at Elephantine. This pyramid was not a tomb, nor did it have a surrounding necropolis or temple complex. Its real function and religious significance remain unknown. However, many similar small, ceremonial, pyramids have been found, built by Old Kingdom pharaohs throughout Egypt.

The Horus name of the king is not known with any confidence. However, in the late 1960s, the Louvre bought a relief showing a king Horus Qahedjet. For stylistical reasons the relief belongs to the Third Dynasty and it seems possible that it belongs to Huni, whose Horus-name it provides.

Khasekhemwy

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Buried pyramid

Pyramid of Sekhemkhet
Sekhemkhet's ruined pyramid at Saqqara.
Sekhemkhet, 3rd Dynasty
Constructed	ca. 2645 BC
Type	Unfinished step pyramid
Material	Limestone
Height	Planned 70 metres (230 ft) Reached 8 metres (26 ft)
Base	115 metres (377 ft)
Slope	50°36' (estimated)

The Iry-Hor/sandbox (also called Pyramid of Sekhemkhet) is an unfinished step pyramid built a few hundred meters southwest of the Step Pyramid of Djoser at Saqqara. The pyramid was constructed ca. 2645 BC for Sekhemkhet Djoserty, second pharaoh of the third dynasty and successor of Djoser.

The pyramid, today only 8 metres (26 ft) high, was discovered in 1952 by Egyptian egyptologist Zakaria Goneim. The burial chamber was found intact and the sarcophagus sealed, yet empty. It remains that the pyramid of Sekhemkhet is the only known royal pyramid whose burial chamber was found unviolated. Nowadays, the aboveground part of the ruins are open to the public, but not its substructures.

Discovery and excavations

In 1951 the Egyptian archaeologist Zakaria Goneim started the investigation of a complex located southwest of the pyramid of Djoser. The complex was noticable at the time as a rectangle of masonry in the desert sand. His friend and mentor, the French egyptologist Jean-Philippe Lauer, advised him to first excavate the corners of the building to determine its dimensions. As the work progressed Z. Goneim and his team unearthed a monumental enclosure wall, 546 metres (1,791 ft) long and 185 metres (607 ft) large, with niches similar to those of Djoser's enclosure. In the center of the enclosed area Z. Goneim discovered the ruins of a pyramid with a base of 115 metres (377 ft) but which had never gone past its first step. Excavating the north side of the pyramid, Z. Goneim finally located the entrance to the subterranean structures. There

In the north of the pyramid Goneim then discovered access to the substructure. In the entrance area were first offerings and  papyri from the 26th Dynasty, but including a number of objects such as the Third Dynasty around 700 stone vessels and ornaments.

left|thumb|180px|A golden object part of Sekhemkhet's original funerary equipment.

On May 31st 1954, Z. Goneim and his team broke through the 3 metres (9.8 ft) thick wall separating the access corridor from the burial chamber. The burial chamber was roughly cut in the bedrock. In the middle of it, among scattered rocks, was a large sealed sarcophagus. This discovery was a sensa

Z. Goneim

opened only in the presence of government representatives and journalists. But the tomb was empty, which led on the basis of previously fueled expectations of a potentially sensational find to disappointment and criticism of Goneim. Moreover Goneim was suspected shortly after the monument robbery and smuggling, as a found of him in the Djoser complex precious vessel was gone. The charges associated with the previously suffered public humiliation exaggeration Goneim finally in 1959 to suicide, tragically, on the same day that Lauer the allegedly stolen vessel wrong in Egyptian Museum categorized in Cairo found. With the investigation of the death Goneims Sekhemkhet complex was interrupted for several years.

Only in 1963, four years after the death Goneims, sat Lauer continued the excavations. In 1967 he discovered the southern tomb is buried with the corpse of a two year old child. Intermittently Lauer dug up in 1973 at Sekhemkhet complex to explore the pyramid and the area dramatically. A complete study of the area is still missing.

Mortuary complex

Defining elements of Sahure's complex: A) Main pyramid, B) Cult pyramid, C) Enclosure wall, D) High temple, E) Causeway

Sahure's mortuary complex is oriented on an east-west axis and comprises all the standard elements of a mortuary complex: a valley temple located on the shores of the Abusir lake linked to the main enclosure via a 235 metres (771 ft) long causeway and, within the enclosure wall, the main pyramid, the high temple and a smaller cult pyramid.

Remarkable is the absence of peripheral burials for the members of the royal family. Indeed, no mastaba or pyramid of a queen has been discovered as of 2012 in the immediate vicinity of Sahure's pyramid. This is in rupture with a tradition dating back at least to pharaoh Snefru and that would be followed by Sahure's successors. Consequently, Sahure's consort queen Neferetnebty, is only attested through carved reliefs found in the high temple. The reason for this absence is unknown.

The complex also lacks a northern chapel located close to the main pyramid entrance. However this type of structure was unknown at the time of Borchardt's excavations and any existing sparse remnants may thus have remained undetected.

High temple

Sahure's mortuary temple represents the formative prototype of the pyramid temple that would serve for the second half of the Old Kingdom. Here, the are no longer separated but rather integrated in an continuous east-west arrangment within the complex. The high temple itself was built of Tura limestone and was finely worked, with rounded corners

With the mortuary temple of Prototype of the pyramid temple was created which should be formative for the second half of the Old Kingdom. Here the separation of mortuary temples and temple worship was lifted and integrates both functions in an east-west axial arrangement in a complex. The temple itself was built of limestone and out with fine Tura dressed limestone with fillet conclusion. The corners had Rods.

The causeway led to the an elongated entry hall on the eastern side of the temple. This hall had a limestone flooring and a dado of granite. The walls were covered by painted reliefs. During ancient times, the entry hall was known as pr-wr, "The House of the Great". Borchardt believed the entry hall was the last station for the funeral procession of the king before the burial proper.

Map of Sahure's pyramid complex

From there a large granite door led to an open courtyard, which was lined with 16 granite columns supporting a monumental granite architrave. These columns were carved so as to resemble the trunk and crown leaves of a palm tree, which was regarded as a fertility and eternity symbol. This was the first time that columns in a mortuary temple

form of columns replaced earlier columns and was to become the standard for columns of pyramid templs of the second half od the Old Kingdom.

This first form of plant column replaced the earlier posts and was. Variations in the plant illustrated standard for pyramid temple of the second half of the Old Kingdom

All the columns bore the name and titles of Sahure. Additionally, columns located in the northern half of the courtyard were inscribed with a representation of the snake goddess Wadjet symbolizing Lower Egypt while columns in the southern half were inscribed with the vulture of Nekhbet the godess of Upper Egypt.

. Labeled with the name and titles of the king wore architrave then limestone plates with star pattern that covered the outer area of ​​the yard.

The courtyard was paved with irregularly shaped, but on the surface of flat polished basalt blocks. This patch is still a large area available. In the northwest area of ​​the yard was a from Alabaster manufactured altar, the victim scenes and symbols of unification wore.

The walls of the courtyard were made of fine limestone and were provided with painted reliefs. The few remaining parts of the reliefs depict scenes of Sahure triumph over his foreign enemies.

Ran around the yard, a closed transition, which was completed in the west by a transverse corridor. Also this course was decorated with painted reliefs, which represented here include hunting scenes. Also found here is a relief that showed a royal entourage, which Sahure putative successor and brother Neferirkare is shown. After his accession had Neferirkare the inscription to the royal titulary "king of Lower and Upper Egypt" supplement.

The western end of the courtyard surrounding the gangs formed as the basalt-paved courtyard cross corridor. This separated the public from the intimate part of the temple, the priests only accessible part. The corridor also offered access to various parts of the inner temple. Much like in the yard had the walls of the corridor, a cross Granitdado and relief decorated limestone walls. Today only fragments preserved reliefs depict scenes of naval battles and ships.

That the cross-corridor each have a deep | in the northern and southern part of the inner temple, two two-story magazine [Galleries] [Gallery (Architecture)] were niche with a papyrus bunch column accessible were. The northern galleries consisted of ten rooms. The labeling as treasuries suggests that here the cult objects were housed for the mortuary temple rituals. The southern galleries included 17 rooms, which probably served the storage offerings. Each chamber contained a staircase to the second floor, some of which were carved from solid blocks of masonry walls out.

At the northern corner of the corridor has been subject to cross a few more chambers and a passageway to Pyramidenhof. In addition, there was a stairway to the roof terrace of the temple. The southern corner of the cross corridor housed also access some of the chambers. Of these chambers also introduced access to Pyramidenhof and another for the small courtyard cult pyramid. In the external wall is a small portico was with two granite columns, which served as a side entrance directly into the pyramid complex.

Centrally located in the middle of the corridor was a small staircase as access to five niche chapel. This chapel had an alabaster floor, a Rosengranitdado for the splendidly decorated limestone walls. The ceiling was marked with a star pattern. The five, provided with a short staircase niches had a red granite liner and each harbored a statue. The statues themselves are no longer maintained.

From the south side of the chapel a passage led to two elongated chambers and finally to the Dead Space victim. This space bordered directly on the pyramid and had on this side facing false door, which could proceed in the spirit of the ancient Egyptian belief Sahure to feed him the proffered victim meal. The false door was composed of roughly worked granite and carried unusually, no inscriptions. This closed Borchardt that the false door was a metal panel on which are important for the cult inscriptions were installed. Of the casing itself no traces remain. The dead victims room also had an alabaster floor and a vaulted ceiling with star decoration. A basin for collecting liquids at sacrifice had an outflow of copper tubing. This was a vast drainage system connected from laid under the pavement copper ears, the water from the temple in a central, lined with limestone derived wastewater channel. Overall, the drainage system consisted of approximately 380 meters of copper piping. To seal the pool lead plugs were used.

North of the Dead space victims were five more chambers, which probably served to prepare the food offerings. In some of the chambers were also pools that were connected to the copper pipe system.

SAHURE Discovery and excavations

The first investigations of the pyramid of Sahure were undertaken in the mid 19th century by John Shae Perring and Karl Richard Lepsius who included the pyramid in his list under the number XXVIII. These investigations remained superficial however and no serious excavations of the pyramid took place at the time, owing mainly to its ruined aspect. The pyramid was entered for the first time a few years later by Jacques de Morgan but he too did not explore it further.

Realizing the significance of the pyramid, the egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt undertook extensive excavations of the site between 1902 and 1908, exploring the entire mortuary complex. He published his discoveries in a two-volume study Das Grabdenkmal des Konigs Sahure, "The Funerary Monument of the King Sahure", which is still considered the standard work on Sahure's complex.

During the excavations, Borchardt discovered the still largely intact architrave of the high temple as well as columns. These were divided between Egypt and Germany. The German part was sent to the Egyptian Museum of Berlin, but were not immediatly put on display because of lack of space. Thus it is only in the 1980s that some of the findings were displayed for the first time in the old stables of Charlottenburg Palace. More recently these were moved to the Pergamon Museum. Borchardt's work was very thorough and a further survey undertaken by Vito Maragioglio and Celeste Rinaldi in the early 1960s yielded no fundamentally new results.

In prevision of the opening of Abusir to tourists in 1994, the pyramid of Sahure was the object of restoration works. Unexpectedly these proved that several huge blocks in the upper part of the causeway were decorated with iconographically and artistically unique reliefs which had not been investigated in detail by Borchardt

They created a new understanding of the decorative program within the complex.

novel excavations took place on the lower part of the causeway. These yielded a series of reliefs decorated with blocks. This was a new insight into the image of the pyramid complexes of the program. Old Kingdom

Userkaf

Cairo stele proving Mentuhotep II is Intef III's son

(?)

For (?) years I followed/served three kings

I followed the Horus Enduring of Life, the son of Ra, Intef,

I served his son the Horus who invigorates the heart of the Two Lands, Mentuhotep

About Ka (pharaoh)

Attestation

Map of the locations where Ka's serekhs have been found.

Ka ruled over Thinis in the first half of 32nd century BC and was buried at Umm el-Qa'ab. He most likely was the immediate successor to Iry-Hor and was succeeded either by Narmer or by Scorpion II . He is the earliest known Egyptian king with a serekh inscribed on a number of artifacts. This may thus be an innovation of his reign . Ka is one of the best attested predynastic kings with Narmer and Scorpion II. Beyond Abydos, he is attested in the predynastic necropolis of Adaima in Upper Egypt and in the north in Tarkhan, Helwan, Tell Ibrahim Awad, Wadi Tumilat and as far north as Tel Lod in the Southern Levant.

The number of artifacts bearing Ka's serekh found outside Abydos is much greater than that of his predecessor . This may be the sign of an increasing influence and perhaps conquest of larger portions of Egypt by the Thinite kings .

Economic changes

During the period of Ka cultural and ideological changes and innovations become clear. In the state ideology, the latter expressed not only by the increased consolidation of several districts and small states, but also by the increasingly complex and intensive agricultural and commercial economy. Under Ka, initial positions and hierarchies have developed to bring an effective and reliable collaboration and functionality with it. More and more provinces and principalities merged and expanded. You obviously saw the benefits unmatched in the growing strength and cohesion . Ideological changes are also reflected in the increasing evidence for extensive trade between the small egyptian kingdoms of the time. For example, vessel fragments with typically upper-egyptian decors have been found in the Nile Delta. This is not only economically but also ideologically motivated, permanent exchange between the kingdoms led to a unification of the spiritual value perceptions and material cultures. Later than the reign of King Narmer is evident in the vessel and in the inscriptions and discoveries in abydenischen Thinite grave plants, such as layered and complex hierarchical class system must have been since protodynastischen times. Been taking into account the fact that every time his own kingdom scorpion central administrative center of power and this format had, it seems only a matter of leadership to be, which of the early dynastic rulers could finally complete the unification.

Numerous inscriptions in black ink tank, running in its simplest form, give interesting information on taxes and a thriving trade economy. It seems to have been a brisk trade operated mainly between Upper and Lower Egypt, which shows that during the 0 Dynasty to a growing centralization and functionality of taxes and trading business was. [11]

One of the most important economic and power factor at this time was probably the irrigation system., including their development and use of Scorpion II reached its first peak may have. Michael Allan Hoffman recalls, referring to the dissertations of Dr. Karl hickeys on the growth and use of evidence of application of irrigation systems, not only on the royal mace handle. Irrigation systems allowed an extended cultivation of cereals and vegetables and to raise more livestock. This factor was just fine for the state of the utmost importance, because the power was closely connected to the control of the harvesting areas. Food shortages and / or lack of space had always been common triggers for unrest. To make matters worse, that the territories were controlled irrigation is apparently limited to very small areas. This is surprising, since archaeological evidence for controlled irrigation dates back to Naqada I, i.e. the simplest techniques of irrigation were known to the Egyptians. It remains to clarify whether the Irrigationsareale may have been deliberately kept small in order to protect those in power