Narmer+Palette



=﻿The Narmer Palette=



Information: Named after the Horus [|Narmer], whose titulary appears on both its faces, the Narmer Palette is a flat plate of schist of about 64 centimetres in height. Its size, weight and decoration suggest that it was a ceremonial palette, rather than an actual cosmetics palette for daily use. 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 artefacts 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.