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Nicholas B. Millet, “The Narmer Macehead and Related Objects,” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 27 (1990), pp. 53–9.

Köhler, “History or Ideology?” p. 511.

See, for example, James Henry Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1906), vol 3:, pp. 247–249, 255; vol. 4: pp. 30–31.

Köhler, “History or Ideology?” p. 504.

Whitney Davis, Masking the Blow: The Scene of Representation in Late Prehistoric Egyptian Art, (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), pp. 165–178.

Vivian Davies and Renée Friedman, “The Narmer Palette: a Forgotten Member,” Nekhen News 10 (1998), p. 22.

Günter Dreyer, Umm el-Qaab I. Das prädynastische Königsgrab U-j und seine frühen schriftzeugnisse (Mainz: Verlag Phillip von Zabern, 1998), pp. 47–83, 113–145, 181–188; and Wilkinson, “Did the Egyptians invent writing?”, in Bill Manley, ed., The Seventy Great Mysteries of Ancient Egypt (London: Thames & Hudson, 2003), pp. 24–27.

Beatrix Midant-Reynes, The Prehistory of Egypt (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), chapter 7 and p. 264, chart 3. On the palettes, see most recently E. Christiana Köhler, “History or Ideology? New reflections on the Narmer Palette and the nature of Foreign Relations in Pre- and Early Dynastic Egypt,” in Edwin C.M. van den Brink and Thomas Levy, eds., Egypt and the Levant. Interrelations from the 4th through the early 3rd Millennium B.C. (London: Leicester University Press, 2002), pp. 505–507.

See Thomas E. Levy, Edwin C.M. van den Brink, Yuval Goren and David Alon, “New Light on King Narmer and the Protodynastic Egyptian Presence in Canaan,” Biblical Archaeologist 58:1 (March 1995), pp. 26–35.