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The Narmer Palette is a 63-centimetre-tall (25 in) by 42-centimetre-wide (17 in), shield-shaped, ceremonial palette, carved from a single piece of flat, soft dark gray-green greywacke. [14] The stone has often been wrongly identified, in the past, as being slate or schist .
El Amrah Palette – Narmer Palette Great Hierakonpolis Palette: 64 x 42 cm (25 x 17 in) Egyptian Museum in Cairo [10] ... schist remainder piece has large, ...
Cosmetic palettes were used to grind makeup. The earliest examples were rectangular in shape and date back to 5000 BC. [12] The palettes later adopted a rounder shape like the Narmer Palette. [13] King Narmer's palette was the earliest piece of its kind. It has decorations of the King smiting the enemies of Egypt and the unification of Upper ...
The famous Narmer Palette, discovered by James E. Quibell in the 1897–1898 season at Hierakonpolis, [35] shows Narmer wearing the crown of Upper Egypt on one side of the palette, and the crown of Lower Egypt on the other side, giving rise to the theory that Narmer unified the two lands. [36]
The Bull Palette (remainder piece about 10 inches (25 cm)) is made of mudstone or schist, and is etched in more atypical medium to medium-low relief than similar cosmetic palettes. A presumed 'fortified city' on the obverse (front) in the upper register has a major loss of the city-rectangle on upper left showing this medium-level bas relief ...
The Manshiyat Ezzat Palette is an ornately adorned schist cosmetic palette from predynastic Egypt found at a cemetery in the eastern Delta town of Manshiyat Ezzat, Dakahlia Governorate. The gravesite is from Pharaoh Den's reign, First Dynasty of Egypt. [1] The palette is of low to moderate bas relief. (see diagram and photo: [2] graphic: )
These include Basalts, schists, bekhen-stone (an especially prized green metagraywacke sandstone used for bowls, palettes, statues, and sarcophagi) [3] and gold-containing quartz. [4] The Narmer Palette, 3100 BC, is one of a number of early and predynastic artifacts that were carved from the distinctive stone of the Wadi Hammamat.
The entire theme of the Narmer Palette, is about the pharaoh of the newly unified Ancient Egypt represented in two scenes, (palette obverse, palette reverse). On one side the pharaoh wears the crown of Upper Egypt and on the other, the pharaoh wears the crown of Lower Egypt. Thus, it is thought that the lionesses with their intertwining necks ...