CLCV 2906 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Second Dynasty Of Egypt, Seth-Peribsen, Saqqara
24 May 2016
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Before battle, men put their penis in some sort of leather in such a way that the penis was erect so that things did not flop around. Egyptian statues showed that they were interested in depicting the torso but not so much the hands. High ranking officials were not buried at abydos, they were buried at saqqara, since a high official assumed the throne, he made saqqara a royal burial ground. We can tell royal burials by the amount of graves buried near the king (and not an aristocrat). Early kings from the second dynasty (as well as the second dynasty) up until peribsen where the kings are from the north (we know because of the difference in art (horus vs seth). The steele of peribsen was defaced by scratching out the symbol that was a. Hippopotamus (representing seth) and not horus the hawk.
