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Gerzeh Palette – Gerzeh palette: Egyptian Museum, Cairo Hunters Palette: 30.5 x 15 cm (12 x 6 in) British Museum (smaller fragment in Louvre) Libyan Palette (original, approximated: 70 x 25 cm) (ht x width) Egyptian Museum, Cairo (surviving dimensions: ~18.5 x ~21 cm, (7 x 8 in)) (ht x width) Min Palette El Amrah Palette – Narmer Palette
The "Four dogs Palette", Room 633 of the Louvre. Cosmetic palettes are archaeological artifacts , originally used in predynastic Egypt to grind and apply ingredients for facial or body cosmetics . The decorative palettes of the late 4th millennium BCE appear to have lost this function and became commemorative, ornamental, and possibly ceremonial.
Serekhs bearing the rebus symbols n'r (catfish) and mr (chisel) inside, being the phonetic representation of Narmer's name [16]. 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]
Most notable on the Battlefield Palette is the standard (iat hieroglyph), and Man-prisoner hieroglyph, probably the forerunner that gave rise to the concept of the Nine bows (representation of foreign tribal enemies). The palettes probably date mostly from the Naqada III (ca. 3300–3100 BC), [2] i.e. late predynastic period, around 3100 BC. [3]
Lower fragment-(and upper left fraction), Battlefield Palette, (28 x 20 cm), in the British Museum. A War and Peace palette: the opposite side has a palm tree and two animals. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ancient Egyptian palettes .
Late Predynastic, Naqada III. 3250-3100 BC. From El-Amra. The exact meaning of there early signs is unclear. The horizontal sign resembles that later used to write the name of the god Min. The Min Palette, or El Amrah Palette is an ancient Egyptian cosmetic palette from El-Amrah, Egypt (for the Amratian Period), found in Naqada, tomb B62.
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: )
The remaining piece-(of this broken cosmetic palette) has possibly one of the more important motifs preserved in the palettes corpus. Five standards are shown collectively on the right of the palette, and each is an iat standard (hieroglyph) , but notably the base of each standard transforms into a 'clenched hand', which embraces the large ...