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| Term | Definition |
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| Geb, Keb |
Earth god |
| Gebal, Gubla |
City in Lebanon, important to Egyptian trade |
| Gerzean |
Late pre-dynastic and protodynastic periods, 3400 to 3050 BCE, divided into Early Gerzean, 3400 to 3300 BCE (Naqada IC, IIA, IIB) Middle Gerzean, 3300 to 3200 BCE (Naqada IIC) Late Gerzean, 3200 to 3050 (Naqada IID1, IID2) |
| Gesso (Italian) |
Mixture of plaster of Paris and glue, used as a kind of putty |
| God's Father |
Priest of intermediate rank. |
| God's Land, Egyptian tA nTr (Ta netjer) |
Term used for some foreign, generally wooded regions: Punt in the south, but also regions in Syria etc. |
| Great Green (literal translation of wAD- |
Generally supposed to denote the Sea, especially the Mediterranean. It has also been proposed to stand for the Nile (delta) or the Fayum. |
| Griffin |
Chimaera with a lion's body and a falcon's head, since the OK symbol of the victorious ruler |
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