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Burial customs of Predynastic Egypt
(Badari -Naqada about 4400-3000 BC)
In the Badarian period the dead are placed in shallow
holes. Burial goods include some vessels (food provision for the afterlife),
jewellery (status symbols) and slate palettes (for preparing eye paint).
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Burial customs of the Naqada I period are still quite
similar to the Badarian period. The dead are placed in shallow holes,
with some burial goods around them (jewellery, pottery, slate palettes).
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In the Naqada II period some tombs are quite large
and well equipped. The elite of the time is buried in these. Burial
goods are often precious and well made objects. The range of objects
is similar to those of the poorer tombs: pottery, jewellery, status
symbols, cosmetic palettes. The afterlife seems to have been considered
a copy of life on earth.
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Most burial goods seem to represent daily life objects, mirroring the belief
that the afterlife is similar to the life on earth. However a number of objects
might be connected with special religious beliefs or rituals only performed
at tombs. Painted vessels might have been made especially for the tomb. Other
objects do not appear very often (compare the models of garlic - below). Their
specific role in the context of the burials is not clear. Were these too produced
for tombs?
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