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SUMMARY
Efforts to pinpoint a complex set of components that influenced state formation in protodynastic Egypt (cf. As accurately noted by Wilkinson (2000b, 23) the "achievements of pharaonic Egypt would have been impossible, even unimaginable, without the driving force of ideology; and that ideology centered on the role of the king". It "cannot yet be proven that the very early kings of Hierakonpolis identified themselves with the falcon, but the strong traditions concerning early kingship that surround the site, and its close connection with the falcon god Horus in Dynastic times (...) are all certainly suggestive . . .
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