Clédat was excavating the site of el-Mehemdiah in the northeastern Nile Delta when a peasant brought him a jar and some incised fragments that he had uncovered during the planting of a palm-grove in nearby el-Beda.

[4] More recently, serekhs of Double Falcon have been found in the Sinai Peninsula,[5] in Tell Ibrahim Awad in the eastern Delta,[6] in Adaima and Abydos in Upper Egypt,[7] and in the Palmahim quarry in southern Israel.

Nonetheless, the wider geographic presence of his serekhs, notably in Upper Egypt and the Southern Levant, suggests that the long-distance authority of the Naqada III kings had already commenced towards the end of the period, be it through trading or warfare.

[10] As for Double Falcon, a pharaoh, Clédat and fellow Egyptologists Günter Dreyer and Edwin van den Brink suspect that a deeper symbolism explains these peculiarities.

[5] In contrast, Alejandro Jiménez Serrano reads the name as Nebwy (nb.wy), "the two lords", and sees a similarity with a much earlier palette[clarification needed] on display in the Barbier-Mueller Museum of Geneva.