Hunters Palette
{{Short description|Cosmetic palette from prehistoric Egypt}}
{{infobox artifact
|name = Hunters Palette
|image = 120px
|image_caption =Hunters Palette with pieces connected
|material = Schist
|size = c. 66 cm x 26 cm
|writing =
|created = 31st century BC (circa)
|discovered =
|location = British Museum, Louvre
|id = British Museum, EA 20790, EA 20792, Louvre E 11254
}}
The Hunters Palette or Lion Hunt Palette is a {{circa|3100 BCE}} cosmetic palette from the Naqada III period of late prehistoric Egypt. The palette is broken: part is held by the British Museum and part is in the collection of the Louvre.
Content
The Hunters Palette shows a complex iconography of lion hunting as well as the hunt of other animals such as birds, desert hares, and gazelle types; one gazelle is being contained by a rope. The weapons used in the twenty-man hunt are the bow and arrow, mace, throwing sticks, flint knives, and spears. Two iconographic conjoined bull-forefronts adorn the upper right alongside a hieroglyphic-like symbol similar to the "shrine" hieroglyph, sḥ.
Details
File:Egypte louvre 321.jpg|Louvre fragment showing various weapons
File:Hunter's Palette.jpg|Hunters Palette, details, especially a lion's body with arrows.
Predynastic Hunters (Egypte louvre 321, cropped).jpg|Hunters detail
Hunterspalette1.png|Drawing of a hunter.
Image from page 217 of "Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;" (1911).jpg|Drawing of a hunter.
Image from page 217 of "Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;" (1911) - 14743676766.jpg|Drawing of a hunter.
Image from page 217 of "Osiris and the Egyptian resurrection;" (1911) - 14764324954.jpg|Drawing of a hunter.
See also
{{commons category|Shrine (hieroglyph)}}
{{commons cat|Hunters Palette}}
{{commons cat|Ancient Egyptian palettes}}
References
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External links
- [https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA20790 British Museum page on the Palette]
- [http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/hesyra/palettes/hunters.htm Photo of Hunters Palette]
- [http://xoomer.virgilio.it/francescoraf/hesyra/palettes/min.htm Predynastic palette corpus]
- [http://www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/fragment-hunting-palette the Louvre fragment]
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Category:4th-millennium BC works
Category:Ancient Egyptian palettes
Category:Ancient Egyptian objects in the British Museum