Hunters Palette

Hunters Palette
Hunters Palette with pieces connected
MaterialSchist
Sizec. 66 cm x 26 cm
Created31st century BC (circa)
DiscoveredAbydos.[1][2]
Present locationBritish Museum, Louvre
IdentificationBritish 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. It was initially registered as discovered in the El-Amarna region, probably the result of confusion with other objects, and Budge later stated it came from Abydos.[3][4]

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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References

  1. ↑ "cosmetic-palette; cast British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. By Nile and Tigris: a narrative of journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British museum between the years 1886 and 1913 I (London, 1920), p.338
  2. ↑ Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) (1920). By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913. London : Murray. p. 338.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  3. ↑ "cosmetic-palette; cast British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. By Nile and Tigris: a narrative of journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British museum between the years 1886 and 1913 I (London, 1920), p.338
  4. ↑ Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) (1920). By Nile and Tigris : a narrative of Journeys in Egypt and Mesopotamia on behalf of the British Museum between the years 1886 and 1913. London : Murray. p. 338.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
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