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PALETTE OF KING NARMER The Palette of King Narmer , was named after the Horus Narmer . The Narmer Palette is a flat plate of schist of about 64 centimeters in height . It It was a ceremonial palette , rather than an actual cosmetics palette for daily use due to its size , weight and decoration . It was found in Hierakonpolis , the ancient Pre-Dynastic capital located in the south of Egypt , by the British archaeologist J .E Quibell during the excavation season of 1897 /98 , in a deposit , along with other artifacts stemming

from the early beginnings of the recorded history of Ancient Egypt : fragments of a ceremonial mace head belonging to Narmer and some other mace head fragments inscribed with the name of the Horus 'Scorpion , one of Narmer 's predecessors . The exact finding circumstances of the palette have not been noted and there appear to be some contradictions in the publication of Quibell 's work at Hierakonpolis . The overall military symbolism on the palette is clear

Using different types of imagery , the king is shown again and again as victorious over his enemies . He is shown striking down a kneeling enemy whilst stepping on the bodies of some other foes on the palette 's back On the front of the palette , he is represented as a human overlooking the decapitated corpses of his foes or as a bull vigorously trampling an enemy and breaking down the walls of a city or a fortress . The fact that the king is represented on one side wearing the crown of Upper Egypt the region from whence he came , and on the other side the crown of Lower Egypt is very often seen as proof that the Upper-Egyptian Narmer was the one who successfully conquered Lower Egypt or part thereof . But even despite the doubt concerning the meaning of the representation of the Red Crown , it still is clear that the decoration on the palette refers to an important military campaign waged by Narmer against a marshy area Three names of cities or fortresses that were overthrown during this campaign are mentioned and even though we do not know which places these names refer to , they were part of the conquered marsh lands . The fact that their names and the name of a fallen enemy are mentioned on the palette points to the great importance Narmer to this conquest The palette also refers to the foundation of a region indicated by the signs ship-harpoon-falcon , a group of signs that at least in later times would be used to denote the 7th Lower Egyptian province located in the eastern Nile Delta (See Narmer . The Narmer Palette ) STELE OF NARAM-SIN The period of Stele of Naram-Sim is the Akkadian Period . Located at the

Musye du Louvre , Paris , France which is Located in the City /Site is Sippar and the of country of Iraq . It is made of pink sandstone during CA . 2254-2218 . It has a BCE Dimensions of 210 cm (height . Originally this stele...

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