El Mahasna
El Mahasna | |
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  El Mahasna Location in Egypt | |
| Coordinates: 26°16.5′N 31°49.75′E / 26.2750°N 31.82917°E | |
| Country |  Egypt |
| Governorate | Sohag |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | +3 |
El Mahasna (Al Maḩāsinah) is a modern settlement and archaeological site near Beit Khallaf and north of Abidos.
El Mahasna is famous for various artifact of the Naqada I period and later, particularly a statuette of a man with penile sheath, equivalents of which exist, such as the Ashmolean Museum Mac Gregor Man statuette, or the golden statuettes from Tell el-Farkha.[1]
The site was excavated in the early 20th century, resulting in an influential report: Pre-dynastic cemetery at El Mahasna.[2]
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Man with penile sheath and four pendants. Tomb H29, El Mahasna. Naqada I Pre-Dynastic period. -
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Bowl with hippopotamus, El Mahasna -
Discoidal macehead, El Mahasna
Sources
- Ayrton, Edward R. (Edward Russell) (1911). Pre-dynastic cemetery at El Mahasna. London ; Boston, Mass., U.S.A. : Sold at the Offices of the Egypt Exploration Fund.
References
- ^ Ciałowicz, Krzysztof M. (2012). "Votive figurines from Tell el-Farkha and their counterparts". Archéo-Nil. 22 (1): 88–90. doi:10.3406/arnil.2012.1044.
- ^ Ayrton 1911.
