Stan Hendrickx

• Hasselt University / PXL-MAD

The Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project has been active in the First Nile Cataract region since 2005 with the aim of reconstructing the human occupational landscape at an important Nilotic crossroads. AKAP has documented a large quantity of rock art sites, both along the Nile Valley and the desert hinterland. While some of the most impressive sit...

Recent works dedicated to Predynastic-Early Dynastic iconography and symbolism demonstrated how complex and thoughtful the motivations behind the choices made by the members of the Naqadan culture regarding their “visual syntax” were. The place of animals in this approach of Naqadan iconography is complex since only few of them has been interpreted...

The ancient Egyptian city of al-Ashmūnayn (Minyā Governorate, Egypt) has been an important regional centre since at least the Old Kingdom (c. 2686–2160 BC). It is assumed to have been founded on the banks of the Nile, although no scientific evidence was hitherto available to support this claim. In this multidisciplinary study, the results of a geoa...

A rock art panel from the site of el-Hosh featuring two boats along with human depictions, including one with royal regalia, alongside a presumed captor with a Nubian captive, adds a further important example of early royal iconography in Egyptian rock art. This early royal representation stands alongside the well-known panels from Nag el-Hamdulab...

The Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project recently discovered an impressive concentra- tion of petroglyphs in a previously unexplored wadi in the desert east of Aswan (south Egypt). A unique panel shows figures and quadrupeds painted in different shades of red and a few instances in white, which according to current understanding, belong to a ‘catt...

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The stocktaking work on the Egyptian lithic collections of the Lyon’s Natural History Museum-Musée Guimet (France), now located in the Confluences Museum collections, allowed one of the authors (Raphaël Angevin) in 2016 to identify an atypical Predynastic flint object. The shape of a segment of the large truncated twisted blade (“Mostagedda knife”)...

During excavations in the spring of 2015 in the settlement of Elkab, a complete and almost intact crucible was discovered on the floor level of a Second Dynasty building. This article describes the crucible and its archaeological context, it explores the design of the crucible in comparison with contemporary crucibles of a corresponding style and i...

The so-called Hunters’ Palette, one of the iconic objects of late Predynastic times, has attracted much scholarly attention since its discovery in the late 19 th century. The visualisation of the palette, which is preserved in three fragments dispersed over two museums (the British Museum and the musée du Louvre), has been a long and winding road w...

The present bibliographical list is a continuation of Hendrickx, S., Analytical Bibliography of the Prehistory and the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt and Northern Sudan. Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 1, Leuven, 1995. Previous additions have been published yearly in Archéo-Nil since 1996. The numbering is continued from the original volume and the...

The rock art sites of Nag el-Hamdulab (Aswan region) present a unique source of information for understanding the transition between late Predynastic iconography and the more classic representations of the first dynasties. The main themes of the rock art tableaux are boat processions, military victory and hunting. An anonymous king wearing the Whit...

Bibliography of the Prehistory and Early Dynastic period of Egypt and northern Sudan, 2015 addition. Addition to HENDRICKX, S., Analytical Bibliography of the Prehistory and the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt and Northern Sudan. Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 1, Leuven, 1995. Previous additions have been published yearly in Archéo-Nil since 1996.

Les représentations d'animaux sont un élément essentiel de l'iconographie prédynastique. La chasse aux animaux sauvages est très importante comme expression du pouvoir et du concept du maintien de l'ordre sur le chaos. De plus, des animaux comme le taureau et le faucon peuvent être des symboles de pouvoir. Les fouilles récentes d'Hiérankonpolis con...

Since 2009, the Belgian Archaeological Mission to Elkab from the Royal Museums of Art and History (Brussels) has shifted its attention from the rock necropolis to the settlement area of the Upper Egyptian pharaonic town site of Elkab. Two excavation seasons in 2009 and 2010 revealed the presence of a vast habitation area dating to the late Early Dy...

The present bibliographical list is a continuation of Hendrickx, S., Analytical Bibliography of the Prehistory and the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt and Northern Sudan. Egyptian Prehistory Monographs 1, Leuven, 1995. Previous additions have been published yearly in Archéo-Nil since 1996. Th e numbering is continued from the original volume and the...

The Abu Ballas Trail in the Libyan Desert (SW Egypt) consists of about thirty archaeological sites along an ancient donkey caravan route, and runs almost straight from Dakhla Oasis towards the Gilf Kebir Plateau, covering about 400 km. Large storage jars for water are the main finds at these sites, and the jars occur in varying numbers and differen...

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 religio...

In Predynastic representations, strongly stylised animals and plants with symbolic values occur. The astonishing craft smanship by which some objects were decorated shows that the artisans were capable of producing almost any kind of representation they would have desired. Therefore, if a representation is stylised, this should be intentional. One...

The early Naqada III Period is of great importance for the relative chronology of Predynastic and Early Egypt because it includes the final phase of state formation in Egypt, just before the commencement of the First Dynasty. In Kaiser's fundamental revision of Petrie's Sequence Dating, the Stufen IIIA and HIB are not very well defined due to the p...

Chronique d'Égypte lxxxv (2010), fasc. 169-170 – doi: 10.1484/j.cde.1.102018 (1) several examples can be found in W.j. Darby et al., Food: The Gift of Osiris, london, 1977, 619-641; W.d. Spanton, "the water lilies of ancient egypt," Ancient Egypt (1917), 1-20; n. beaux, Le cabinet de curiosités de Thoutmosis III. Plantes et ani-maux du «jardin bota...

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Riassunto Questo breve articolo presenta la ricostruzione ambientale di un sito Predinastico vicino ad Assuan. Il contemporaneo ritrovamento di contesti domestici e funerari in una piccola valle vicino al Nilo rende il sito unico nel suo genere. La rico-struzione ambientale ottenuta con il disegno artistico è indubbiamente un buon metodo per presen...

Members of the Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project have been working since 2005 in the West Bank of the Nile, from Qubbet el-Hawa north to Kubbaniya north, Wadi Kubbaniya, Wadi Abu Subeira, and a section of the desert east of Kom Ombo. Both survey and rescue operations are performed, the latter as an answer to the urgency to save as many archaeol...

The Predynastic settlement and cemeteries discovered in Nag el-Qarmila are the southernmost preserved evidence of a Naqada domestic and funerary site (apart from Elephantine). Both radiometric dates and pottery analysis suggest a main use of the site during the first half of the 4th millennium (c. 3800-3600 BC), while a younger phase dated to the e...

Since 2005 the “Aswan-Kom Ombo Archaeological Project” has been working on the rock art sites from Gharb Aswan and Wadi Abu Subeira. Many are the localities recorded up until now, mainly along the river and on wadi bottoms. The representations are dated from prehistory to the Islamic Period and show a variety of subjects : wild animals, cattle, boa...

A cat skeleton from a Predynastic burial in Egypt that was previously labelled as Felis silvestris is re-identified as Felis chaus. This means that the previous claim needs to be withdrawn that the specimen represents early evidence for taming of Felis silvestris that ultimately led to domestication. However, the statement that the small felid has...

The remains are described of a young small felid found in a Predynastic burial at Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt. Osteometric and zoogeographical arguments indicate that the specimen, dated to around 3700 B.C. on the basis of the associated pottery, belongs to Felis silvestris. In the same cemetery several other animal species, both wild and domestic,...

A detailed archaeological study of the ancient long dis- tance caravan routes across the Eastern Sahara has not yet been established. This paper describes the results of initial investigations on the identification of caravan traces by remote sensing reconnaissance, and archaeo- logical field surveys west of the Nile. During this work, pottery...

The article presents two pharaonic sites in the desert approximately 15-20 km southwest of Dakhla Oasis. The excavation and survey of the sites (small hills with some stone structures) produced pottery, stone artefacts, animal bones, plant remains, and a number of rock engravings as well as a short hieroglyphic inscription. There is evidence of at...

The first chapter of this article gives a survey of the scientific history of Deir al-Barsha (egyptologically better known as el-Bersheh). It also describes the zones of the concession area that will be discerned in this and future publications of the Leuven mission. The project aims, firstly, at investigating the cemeteries of the Old Kingdom, the...

An attempt is made to place a few very characteristic Old Kingdom pottery types - Maidum bowls, beer jars and bread moulds - into their economic and social context. All of these vessels can be related to changes in food technology, which apparently took place over a rather short period of time during the second half of the 1st Dynasty. Particular a...

La huitième campagne de fouille sur le site d’Adaïma s’est déroulée du 1er novembre au 8 décembre 1996, dans le cadre de l’Institut français d’archéologie orientale. M. Yahia Bary Abd el Razeq, inspecteur à Esna, représentait le Conseil suprême des antiquités. Les participants à la mission autres que les auteurs étaient Mlle Hélène Coquegniot (anth...

New publication and discussion of two fragmentary stone objects of Protodynastic date in the Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire in Brussels, together with a further fragment from one of them, found a few years ago in the excavations of the DAIK at Umm el-Qa'ab. The carved decoration of both includes representations of the click beetle (Agrypnus noto...

The identification of the birds frequently represented on predynastic Decorated pottery (Naqada IIC-D, about 3650-3300 cal BC), ostriches or flamingos, has always been a controversial issue. A reinvestigation of the available information indicates that they are basically ostriches. The elements supposed characteristic for the flamingo seem to be ma...

Vollst. zugl.: Leuven, Univ., Diss., 1989 u.d.T.: Hendrickx, Stan: De grafvelden der Naqada-cultuur in Zuid-Egypte, met bijzondere aandacht voor het Naqada III grafveld te Elkab.