Maadian culture

The prisoners on the Battlefield Palette may be the people of the Buto-Maadi culture subjugated by the Egyptian rulers of Naqada III.

The Maadian culture consists in about a dozen sites, including the excavated cemetery and settlement complex Maadi near modern Cairo. The Maadian culture is first identified during the second part of Naqada I and continued until Naqada IIc/d, when it was replaced by the Naqada II culture. Major sites include el-Gerza, Haraga, Abusir el-Melek, and Minshat Abu Omar. ^[2]

The Maadian culture emerged from the earliest Neolithic sites of the Nile Valley, in the Faiyum region and at Merimda Beni Salama and el-Omari. It was much less developed than the contemporary cultures of Naqada I and Naqada II. ^[2]

Settlements had walls made from plant material. Pottery was globular with a broad, flat base, a rather narrow neck, and flared rims. ^[2]

The people of Naqada II and Naqada III seem to have expanded northward into Lower Egypt, replacing the Maadian culture. ^[3] Maadi was first conquered during Nadaqa II c-d. ^[3] The cultures of Lower Egypt were replaced by Upper Egypt and Naqada culture by the end of Naqada II circa 3200 BCE. ^[3] The Maadian culture of Buto, Tell Ibrahim Awad, Tell el-Rub'a, and Tell el-Farkha were vacated, giving way to the Naqada III culture. ^[3]

Sources

• Shaw, Ian, ed. (2003). The Oxford history of ancient Egypt. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press. p. 59. ISBN   9780192804587.

References

1. Brovarski, Edward (2016). "Reflections on the Battlefield and Libyan Booty Palettes". In Vandijk, J. (ed.). Another Mouthful of Dust: Egyptological Studies in Honour of Geoffrey Thorndike Martin. Leiden: Peeters. pp. 81–89.
2. Shaw 2003, pp. 53–55.
3. Shaw 2003, p. 59.