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So valuable that it has never been permitted to leave Egypt, the Palette of King Narmer establishes both visual and iconographic conventions that will guide Egyptian art for centuries (Calvert, n.d.). The iconography on the Palette of King Narmer can be found in Egyptian art for the next several millennia, including the way the entire scene is depicted, and the specific elements and subjects like the headdresses and royal regalia. A double-sided palette, it also tells the story of the King, which is itself a common feature in Egyptian art and design. The front of the palette includes the King’s name rendered in hieroglyphs, flanked by two bull or cow heads that possibly symbolize the goddess Hathor. Below this line of “text” are three additional layers, the first of which demonstrates clearly the extent of the king’s power and dominion over the land and people. The king’s headdress is one that would come to symbolize the ruler over Lower Egypt, making the palette an important historical document too (Calvert, n.d.). Also in the second line of text is a priest preceded by four men holding long standards, and a boat that sits atop a crowd of people who likely represent the...
This visual storytelling method is one that future Egyptian artists would use to relay the conquests of their kings.
Also significant on the Palette of King Narmer are the supernatural elements and references to Egyptian deities. The largest section of the front of the palette is consumed by the imagery of a mythical creature with the body of a leopard and the elongated, serpentine neck: sometimes called a “serpotard,” (Calvert, n.d.). The bottommost portion of the palette contains imagery of a bull in a position of conquest, which represents the king himself (Calvert, n.d.). On the reverse side of the stone tablet is totally different from the front, in that it contains one main section. The top still has the two cow heads, and the very bottom depicts enemies fleeing. The large center piece shows the king, standing one foot in front of the other and holding a mace: a post that would be used for the next three thousand years in Egyptian art (Calvert, n.d.). This pose is a position of power, and the king’s authority is further explicated in the depiction of him getting ready to behead an enemy.…
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Calvert, A. (n.d.). Palette of King Narmer. Smart History. https://smarthistory.org/palette-of-king-narmer/
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