Information about the Narmer Palette It was found by the British scientist Quibell in Hierakonpolis near Edfu and is made of green schist.
It was found by the British scientist Quibell in Hierakonpolis near Edfu and is made of green schist. The Narmer Palette is considered one of the first historical paintings. It was written and drawn during the reign of Pharaoh Narmer, who united the two Egyptian faces: the southern face, which the ancient Egyptians called "Ta-Shamou", meaning the land of the south, and the land of the north, which the ancient Egyptians called "Ta-Mahu", and thus formed the first state ruled centrally from Memphis in history.
The first face:
At the top of the palette we find two faces of a woman with the ears and horns of a cow, the goddess Bat (who was later called Hathor), and between the two faces we find the facade of the palace "Serkh" and the name of Narmer is engraved inside it.
*In the picture below, we find the pharaoh depicted in a large size wearing the white crown of Upper (southern) Egypt and holding his weapon in his hand to strike one of his northern enemies (whose distinctive feature is the wig of the northerners), and behind the king is the king's sandal holder with a bowl of water. In front of the king, we find the god Horus in the form of a falcon presenting the king with the head of a captive, and his body is the sign of the land for the ancient Egyptians, and papyrus plants emerge from it, which is evidence that it is the land of the north, meaning that Horus presents the king with the land of the Delta to rule it and extend his influence over it.*
After that, we find at the bottom of the painting two enemies fleeing, and next to each of them is the name of his province (Buto and Sais), each of them looking behind him as evidence of the strength of what they are fleeing from, and next to them is a drawing of their fortress that Narmer captured.
The second side: -
First, we find at the top of the carved image the same faces of the goddess Bat, and between them is the Serkh,
Below it is a scene depicting the end of the war and the king walking in a victory procession heading to the temple of the sacred city of Buto, and here the king wears the red crown, the crown of the Delta, and behind him is the sandal-bearer, and in front of the king is his chief minister, and above him is the word "Sat" meaning minister, and in front of the minister are the standard-bearers. From the flags we conclude that ancient Egypt was the first to form a central government in history, as the date of this painting and this event dates back to 3100 years BC. On the far right we find a group of prisoners with their throats cut and placed between their feet. We see that all the prisoners' feet are facing each other except for two of them, to distinguish them and it is believed that they are leaders from the north. Below this scene we find a picture of two mythical animals intertwined with intertwined necks to form the focus of the bowl for grinding the king's kohl. At the end of the painting we find the king depicted as a strong "bull" as evidence of his strength destroying one of the enemy's fortresses and trampling one of the enemies with his foot.
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