Pallets of Narmer

The Pallet of Narmer or Grande Pallet of Hiérakonpolis is a pallet with make-up in excellent state and preserved by the Egyptian Musée of Cairo.

One dated the pallet around the XXXII E, marked the found writings among oldest hiéroglyphes, and reporting the unification of the High and the Low-Egypt by Narmer, which is mentioned neither by Manéthon, nor by the Pierre of Palermo or the List of Kings de Turin.

The pallet, almost intact, was discovered in 1898 by the English archeologist James Quibell at the time of an excavation of the royal residences of Nekhen (today Hiérakonpolis), the old capital of the High-Egypt.

The back of the pallet represents the king, threatening of a pyriforme bludgeon (at the end in the pear shape) a man with knees. Behind the king, and in the background, a servant is illustrated who carries the sandals of the king. Under its feet two characters are represented who point out the crushed enemy. The symbolic system of the scene evokes a victory of the South against North. The South is represented by a falcon which extracts from the papyrus (North) the head of another enemy.

The name of the king is registered in Hiéroglyphe S in a Serekh at the top of the pallet.

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the Pallet of Narmer: The victorious king of the south

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