Archeology

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Seshat, the Egyptian goddess of writing and measurement, had no temple of her own. She appears instead at the founding of other gods' temples, in the pedj-shes or "stretching of the cord" ceremony that set a building's axis. This chapter maps where the surviving evidence was actually dug up, one card per artifact, from the Narmer macehead to the Roman period.

Each point is a find-location, not a museum. Where an object's provenance is unrecorded it is listed under the map rather than placed at a guess.

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Works Cited

Porter, Bertha, and Rosalind Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings. Griffith Institute.
Budde, Dagmar. Die Göttin Seschat. Leipzig, 2000.
Belmonte, Juan Antonio, and Mosalam Shaltout. In Search of Cosmic Order: Astronomy in Ancient Egypt. Chapter 7.
Wilkinson, Toby. Royal Annals of Ancient Egypt: The Palermo Stone and Its Associated Fragments. London, 2000.
Ćwiek, Andrzej. Relief Decoration in the Royal Funerary Complexes of the Old Kingdom. Warsaw.