NaqadaNaqada is located on the west bank of the Nile in southern Egypt. It was an important city during the late Predynastic Period as the center for the followers of Seth, the god who murdered his brother Osiris, the god of the dead. Naqada is also the site of a great predynastic cemetery. Excavations at Naqada have been of great importance in providing information about predynastic cultures. The vast quantities of pottery found in its cemetery were used, in conjunction with finds from Ballas and Hu, to construct a sequence of dates for the Predynastic Period. The Naqada I, II, and III phases of the resulting predynastic chronology were named after the site. On exhibit from Naqada is a bowl (see cat. no. 62a). Also, objects on exhibit from either Naqada or Ballas(L) are another bowl (see cat. no. 64), a stone jar (see cat. no. 70b), the Fish Palette (see cat. no. 73a), and the Turtle Palette (see cat. no. 73b). |