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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 Narmer Palette, also known as the Great Hierakonpolis Palette or the Palette of Narmer, is a significant Egyptian archaeological find, dating from about the 31st century BC, belonging, at least nominally, to the category of cosmetic palettes. It contains some of the earliest hieroglyphic inscriptions ever found.
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.
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 .
Along with the others in this series of palettes, including the Narmer Palette, it includes some of the first representations of the figures, or glyphs, that became Egyptian hieroglyphs. Most notable on the Battlefield Palette is the standard ( iat hieroglyph ), and Man-prisoner hieroglyph , probably the forerunner that gave rise to the concept ...
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 ...
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 Symbol of Min, a compound-type hieroglyph arrangement, is centered at the top of the palette, and comprises 1/4 of the palette's front. The other motifs are opposed-facing bird heads on each top corner; the heads are small, with a thin neck, about a tenth the height of the palette, and the right head is damaged.