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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 .
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This image comes from the 13 th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica or earlier. The copyrights for that book have expired in the United States because the book was first published in the US with the publication occurring before January 1, 1930. As such, this image is in the public domain in the United States.
New Kingdom: Fish-shaped palette-(Bulti-hieroglyph type); Adorned fish side/ with cosmetic side for daily use. [8] Gerzeh Palette; Barbary Goat Palette; Trussed-Goose Palette; Guinea Fowl Palette; Hunters Palette "Ka Palette (no. 1)" "Ka Palette (no. 2)" Libyan Palette; Manshiyat Ezzat Palette; Min Antelope Palette; Min Palette; Narmer Palette
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]
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The image is featured specifically on decorated cosmetic palettes from the Predynastic period of Egypt, and more extensively, as design motifs on cylinder seals in the Protoliterate period of Mesopotamia (circa 3500–3000 BC). Examples include the Narmer Palette and the Oxford Palette. The cylinder seal of Uruk (image above) displays the motif ...
Spiral design altar block from the Tarxien Temples of Malta, uncovered by Sir Themistocles Zammit Front and back sides of Narmer Palette, this facsimile on display at the Royal Ontario Museum, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The palette depicts Narmer unifying Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt.