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List of ancient Egyptian palettes

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A list of a small subset of ancient Egyptian palettes, ranging in the Naqada periods, 4th millennium BC, probably mostly from ~3500 to 3000 BC; some palettes may be from the later period of the earliest 3rd millennium BC.

These cosmetic palettes come in numerous shapes and sizes, and were often found in tombs or graves. They were preceded by a period of palettes called rhomboidal palettes, unadorned, and without the cosmetic mixing circle found on some of the later Naqada period palettes.

Alphabetical individual listing, (abbreviated)

Battlefield Palette
"Two-bird heads palette (Brooklyn)"
"Bird palette (Louvre no XXX)" (bird-resting, on its feet)
Double-Bird Palette, ("Anchor Palette")
Bull Palette
El Ahaiwah Dog Palette
Four Dogs Palette, Giraffes Palette
Oxford Palette Minor Hierakonpolis Dogs Palette
"Fish palette (Louvre dolphin type)"
New Kingdom: Fish-shaped palette-(Bulti-hieroglyph type); Adorned fish side/ with cosmetic side for daily use.
Gerzeh Palette
Barbary Goat Palette
Trussed-Goose Palette
Guinea Fowl Palette
Hunters Palette
"Ka Palette (no. 1)"
"Ka Palette (no. 2)"
Libyan Palette
Manshiyat Ezzat Palette
Min Antelope Palette
Min Palette
Narmer Palette
"Turtle palette (no. 1)"-(Louvre) (See zoomorphic palette)
Turtle Palette no. 2

List of ancient Egyptian Predynastic palettes

Name	Dimensions	Image	Location	Notes + Topic
Battlefield Palette
Vultures Palette, etc.	Full Height?
50 x 32 cm-(?)
(20 x 13 in)	[[File:Battlefield palette.jpg	100px	Battlefield Palette]]	British Museum	Side A: war; Side B: peace
('Order vs Chaos')
Bull Palette	–		Louvre
Gerzeh Palette	–	[[File:Gerzeh palette.jpg	70px	center	Gerzeh palette]]	Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Hunters Palette	30.5 x 15 cm
(12 x 6 in)		British Museum	(smaller fragment in Louvre)
Libyan Palette	(original, approximated:
70 x 25 cm)
(ht x width)		Egyptian Museum, Cairo	(surviving dimensions:
~18.5 x ~21 cm,
(7 x 8 in))
(ht x width)
Min Palette
El Amrah Palette	–
Narmer Palette
Great Hierakonpolis Palette	64 x 42 cm
(25 x 17 in)	[[File:Narmer_Palette_smiting_side.jpg	80px	Narmer Palette]]	Egyptian Museum in Cairo	Unification of Southern Egypt, Delta Egypt, (Upper and Lower Egypt)

Shield-shape palettes

A list of shield-shaped palettes; the majority are vertically oriented. (The Hunters Palette is an example of a horizontally-oriented palette.)

Name	Dimensions	Image	Location	****
Form	Notes + Topic
*"Two-bird heads
palette (Brooklyn)"*	22.5 x 11.8 cm
(8.8 x 4.6 in)		Brooklyn Museum, USA	V38	Unadorned palette, Shield-shaped, with 2-opposed-Bird-Heads
Four Dogs Palette
Giraffes Palette
Louvre Palette	–	[[File:Palette with quadrupedes-E 11052-IMG 9460-9470-gradient.jpg	100px]]	Louvre	V38	Obverse:Four canines and other animals, w/cosmetic circle
"Duck, trussed"
Trussed-Goose Palette-G54	–		British Museum	V38
Hunters Palette	(horizontally– –oriented)
30.5 x 15 cm
(12 x 6 in)	[[File:HuntersPalette-BritishMuseum-August21-08.jpg	100px]]	British Museum	N20		(smaller fragment in Louvre)
Manshiyet el Ezzat Palette	(Broken top)
23.5 to 27 x 12 cm,
(9-10 x 5 in)
(ht x width)			V38	Discovered in a tomb, dated to Pharaoh Den's reign
Cosmetic Circle: two confronted lions with intertwined necks, (as on the Narmer Palette).
Min Palette
El Amrah Palette	–	[[File:Mudstone_palette_with_hieroglyphs_in_relief._Late_Predynastic,_Naqada_III._3250-3100_BC._From_El-Amra.jpg	center	60px]]		V38	The only adornment is a "typographic ligature" style combination of the archaic "Min symbol"–R23 with the hieroglyph for "crook-staff"–S39
(1/4 of palette face)
Narmer Palette
Great Hierakonpolis Palette	64 x 42 cm
(25 x 17 in)		Egyptian Museum, Cairo	V38	Unification of Southern Egypt, Delta Egypt, (Upper and Lower Egypt)
Oxford Palette
Minor Hierakonpolis Dogs Palette
"Ashmolean Palette"
"Two Dog Palette"	42 x 22 cm
(17 x 9 in)	[[File:Ceremonial Palette from Hierakonpolis.jpg	80px	Oxford Palette]]	Ashmolean Museum, no. E3294	V38	greywacke, ca. 3150 BC
two serpopards, necks framing a mixing circle, and necks in wave-motion-(3-cycles); both serpopards are licking a gazelle, (as a newborn, or young)

Zoomorphic palettes

A list of zoomorphic, or animal style Egyptian palettes.

Name	Dimensions	Location	Notes + Topic
"Anchor Palette"
("Double Bird (Pelta) Palette")	–	Pelta?	Anchor-shaped, double outward facing bird-heads
Bird (Louvre)
(a goose)	–	Louvre	Naqada IId-IIIc
"El Ahaiwah Dog Palette"	–		from El Ahaiwah- (El Ahaiwah)
"Duck, trussed"
Trussed-Goose Palette-G54	–	British Museum	portrayed later in hieroglyphs as G54, a 'trussed goose'
Elephant palette	(length-(horizontal):
~20.5 cm, (~8 in)	Egyptian Museum, Berlin
Geese Palette	(broken palette)
14.5 x 11.5 cm
(6 x 5 in)	British Museum, 32074	schist
remainder piece has large, entire cosmetic circle, 2 small confronted geese below
Barbary Goat palette	–	British Museum
Turtle Palette
{circular)	–	Louvre	Circular shape
with small turtle appendages
Turtle Palette no. 2
{circular)	–	Egyptian Museum, Berlin	Circular shape
with small turtle appendages

Bird palettes

Name	Dimensions	Location	****
Form	Notes + Topic
Bird (Louvre)
(a goose)	–	Louvre	G42	Naqada IId-IIIc
goose, seated-(at rest)
"Duck, trussed"
Trussed-Goose
Palette-G54	–	British Museum	V38
G54
*"Two-bird heads
palette (Brooklyn)"*	22.5 x 11.8 cm
(8.8 x 4.6 in)	Brooklyn Museum, USA	V38
H1-H1	Unadorned palette, Shield-shaped, with 2-opposed-Bird-Heads
Guinea Fowl Palette	28.5 x 19 cm
(11.3 x 7.5 in)	Brooklyn Museum, USA	?	Guinea Fowl shape, Naqada II, (with small inlaid white eye)

Miscellaneous palettes, fragments

Name	Dimensions	Location	****
Form	Notes + Topic
Min Antelope Palette	–		N33	(Naqada IId-IIIc)
circular with suspension hole, inscribed with antelope, 1/3 of face
"Ka Palette (no. 1)"	–	?	Q3	D28,
Ka hieroglyph-shaped plate
large vertical offering-style plate (see the Hotep-style plates, and the Ancient Egyptian offering formula)
"Ka Palette (no. 2)"	–	?	Q3	D28,
Ka hieroglyph-shaped plate
plus Ankh, Papyrus, and U3S-staff S34, M13, S40

Egyptian hieroglyphs and the palette's corpus

A list of the Egyptian hieroglyphs and the individual palettes.

Gerzeh Palette

The Gerzeh Palette, or "Hathor Palette", "Cow-Head Palette" has topics containing 5-stars, a pair of horns, and a stylized "head". The hieroglyphs are: N14, F13, and possibly a relation to Y8, Hathor-sistrum, (the shape of the cow's head, as on the Narmer Palette), and R20.

[[Min Palette]]

The only adornment is a "typographic ligature" style combination of the archaic "Min symbol"--R23 with the hieroglyph for "crook-staff"--S39 (1/4 of palette face).

Galleries

Zoomorphic gallery

File:Egypte louvre 312.jpg|Bird - (non-typical, sitting Goose-(duck)) File:Egypte louvre 311.jpg|Fish-(Dolphin-shape) File:Hippo shaped cosmetic palette.jpg|Hippopotamus File:ProtodynasticPalette-Turtle-ROM.jpg|Turtle

Miscellaneous pallettes

File:Battlefield palette.jpg|Battlefield Palette File:Palette with quadrupedes-E 11052-IMG 9460-9470-gradient.jpg|Four Dogs Palette File:HuntersPalette-BritishMuseum-August21-08.jpg|Hunters Palette File:Plover palette.jpg|Plover palette

References

Schulz, Regine; Seidel, Matthias eds.; Egypt, The World of the Pharaohs, (w/ 34 contributing Authors), Konemann, Germany, c 1998, (538 pp), (hardcover, ).

References

Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), 1853-1942.. (1920). "Prehistoric Egypt illustrated by over 1,000 objects in University college, London". British School of Archaeology in Egypt.
Ciałowicz, Krzysztof, M.. (1991). "Les palettes égyptiennes aux motifs zoomorphes et sans dećoration : études de l'art pred́ynastique". Uniwersytet Jagielloński.
Petrie, W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders), 1853-1942.. (1921). "Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes". British school of archaeology in Egypt.
Patenaude, Julie.. (2011). "A catalogue of Egyptian cosmetic palettes in the Manchester University Museum collection". Golden House Publications.
2-Bird-heads Palette, ''Egyptian Galleries,'', 3rd floor, Brooklyn Museum [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3268]
[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypte_louvre_312.jpg Wikimedia Commons: ''Bird-resting,'' (on its feet)]
[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Egypte_louvre_311.jpg Wikimedia Commons: ''Fish, (dolphin-type)'', Louvre]
"Museum Gustavianum - the Victoria Museum of Egyptian Antiquities".
''Egypt, The World of the Pharaohs,'' '''Turtle Palette''', (circular, small appendages) p 18.
"Museum of Antiquities {{!}} Narmer Palette (Egyptian)".
2-Bird-heads Palette, ''Egyptian Galleries,'', 3rd floor, Brooklyn Museum [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3268]
Patch, Diana. (29 May 2012). "Dawn of Egyptian Art". Metropolitan Museum of Art.
''Egypt, The World of the Pharaohs,'' "Ceremonial palette, Hierakonpolis", p 27.
Schulz, Seidel, ''Egypt, The World of the Pharaohs,'' Chapter 1, ''Egypt's Path to Advanced Civilization,'' p. 18, 3 palettes of: ''1-elephant, 2-hippopotamus, 3-turtle.''
''Egypt, The World of the Pharaohs,'' '''Turtle Palette''', (circular, small appendages) p 18.
2-Bird-heads Palette, ''Egyptian Galleries,'', 3rd floor, Brooklyn Museum [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3268]
Guinea Fowl Palette, ''Egyptian Galleries,'', 3rd floor, Brooklyn Museum [http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/3851]
[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Hotep_offering_table Wikimedia Commons, ''Hotep offering tables'']

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