a goddess standing between two upright lionesses, a wheel of various horned quadrupeds, several examples of a staff that became associated with the deity of the earliest cattle culture and one being held up by a heavy-breasted goddess. Animals depicted include onagers or zebras, ibexes, ostriches, lionesses, impalas, gazelles, and cattle. Several of the images in the mural resemble images seen in the Gebel el-Arak Knife: a figure between two lions, warriors, or boats, but are not stylistically similar. Proto-hieroglyphic symbols Some symbols on Gerzeh pottery resemble traditional Egyptian hieroglyphs, which were contemporaneous with the proto-cuneiform script of Sumer. The figurine of a woman is a distinctive design considered characteristic of the culture. The end of the Gerzeh culture is generally regarded as coinciding with the unification of Egypt, the Naqada III period. Other artifacts See also Riqqeh Notes Bibliography Petrie/Wainwright/Mackay: The Labyrinth, Gerzeh and Mazghuneh, British School of Archaeology in Egypt XXI. London 1912 Alice Stevenson: Gerzeh, a cemetery shortly before History (Egyptian sites series),London 2006, External links Gerzeh (Girza). University College London, 2000 Egypt, ancient. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2005 Gerzeh Tomb 20 Gerzeh Tomb 105 Gerzeh Tomb 205 4th-millennium BC establishments 4th-millennium BC disestablishments 4th millennium BC in Egypt Archaeological cultures in Egypt Predynastic Egypt Jemdet Nasr period