| Hunters Palette | |
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 Hunters Palette with pieces connected | |
| Material | Schist |
| Size | c. 66 cm x 26 cm |
| Created | 31st century BC (circa) |
| Present location | British Museum, Louvre |
| Identification | British Museum, EA 20790, EA 20792, Louvre E 11254 |
The Hunters Palette or Lion Hunt Palette is a c. 3100 BCE cosmetic palette from the Naqada III period of late prehistoric Egypt. The palette is broken: part is held by the British Museum and part is in the collection of the Louvre.
Content
The Hunters Palette shows a complex iconography of lion hunting as well as the hunt of other animals such as birds, desert hares, and gazelle types; one gazelle is being contained by a rope. The weapons used in the twenty-man hunt are the bow and arrow, mace, throwing sticks, flint knives, and spears. Two iconographic conjoined bull-forefronts adorn the upper right alongside a hieroglyphic-like symbol similar to the "shrine" hieroglyph, sḥ.
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Details
Louvre fragment showing various weapons
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Hunters detail
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Drawing of a hunter.
See also
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Shrine (hieroglyph).
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hunters Palette.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ancient Egyptian palettes.
References
External links
- British Museum page on the Palette
- Photo of Hunters Palette
- Predynastic palette corpus
- the Louvre fragment
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