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Semainean, a. Archæol.|səˈmaɪniːən|
Also Semainian.
[f. the name of Semaine(h, a village in Upper Egypt + -an.]
A term used by W. M. F. Petrie to designate the last period of predynastic culture in Egypt. Also absol. as n.
1925Catal. Egyptian Antiquities found at Badari in 1925 3 Approximate dates..9,000 b.c.{ddd}Gerzean Age{ddd}7,000 b.c.{ddd}Semainean Age{ddd}5,500 b.c.{ddd}First Dynasty. 1928[see Gerzean a.]. 1939W. M. F. Petrie Making of Egypt vii. 55 We now reach the last of the ages, the Semainean, best represented at Semaineh, 17 miles west of Qena. 1958V. G. Childe New Light on Most Anc. East v. 99 Petrie..postulated a ‘dynastic race’ and interpolated a Semainian period to contain the conquest and a Semainian culture to result from it. 1964Jrnl. Near Eastern Studies XXIII. 274 Sir Flinders Petrie..divided the Naqadian into three principal phases, named, with reference to the sites of El Amrah, Gerzeh, and Semaineh, the ‘Amratian’, the ‘Gerzean’, and the ‘Semainean’ and otherwise known as Naqada I, Naqada II, and Naqada III. |