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Benjamin B. Hopkins (Oxford Press, 1908, Ancient Upper Egypt, notes about hieroglyph fragments from the bottom part of the Maad-Nekhen monument).
“…Anedjib, King (?) of Maad-Nekhen, came back with his ancestor’s treasury (?) to recover his possessions (nn: prob. either the descent of one previous Maad-Nekhen ruler or usurpation) destroyed by Mentuhotep’s armies (nn: Mentuhotep I to IV, 5000 to 4785 app.). From there he summoned the Young and the Old to come to him and build his city Anedjib-Nekhen”
“At these times the Libyans were on their way to conquer the whole Upper Egypt (nn: around 3000 B.C.) … Pharaoh Mentuhotep II ?immediately raided ?man as bandit from home place Toskha (nn: prob. homon. previous dynasty, first Mentuhotep(s) assumed from Migdol). Anedjib started to repair the monuments (nn: Sphinx and AbuSimbel type statues) so Pharaoh made a test for Anedjib’s loyalty… Pharaoh sent a huge army to Maad-Nekhen (nn: assuming Khmun and Behdet had already fallen into Libyan hands, where did Pharaoh get the food for his army, droughts were atrocious at this period) to stop the Libyans (nn: we assume now Pharaoh and Anedjib are on the same side, so the test was passed a way or another). The battle occurred on the Nile shore and Pharaoh was defeated (nn: where was Anedjib?)… the battle in Anedjib-Nekhen (nn: Maad-Nekhen) left thousands dead (nn: same battle or later one?) culminated on the Snake’s day of the Moon year (nn: ref. Seth, Anedjib possibly a former Priest for Seth in Tyre, last date precise solstice 2990, probably spring)…”
“Funerals for Anedjib (nn: no date at all) buried in his (?) Seth Temple (nn: probably arch. site 24 at Maad/Anedjib-Nekhen). Anedjib honored by new Pharaoh Hebet-Anedjib (id. unknown)…”
{end of fragments}
{Notes recovered from the Heavengames Temple, in the “X-Nekhen scenario at V.Hard” Forum chest}
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