Min Palette

For the Ancient Egyptian god Min, see Min (god).

The Min Palette, or El Amrah Palette is an Predynastic Egyptian cosmetic palette from El-Amrah, Egypt (for the Amratian Period), found in Naqada, tomb B62. It is held in the British Museum, no. 35501.[2]

Description

The Min Palette is a flat slate palette, unadorned, with no iconographic scenes.

Two topics are displayed on the palette. The Symbol of Min, a compound-type hieroglyph arrangement, is centered at the top of the palette, and comprises 1/4 of the palette's front. The other motifs are opposed-facing bird heads on each top corner; the heads are small, with a thin neck, about a tenth the height of the palette, and the right head is damaged.

A small suspension hole is centered on the palette's top.

Min's emblem

The Emblem of Min on the palette is a typographic ligature of two Egyptian hieroglyphs–
and
. The later horizontal form of the Min symbol (hieroglyph), (consisting of two opposing-faced arrows), is shown in an archaic form. Centered vertically overlaying the Min hieroglyph is a vertical "crook" or staff, the version of the 'straight staff',[3] (see Crook-staff (Luwian hieroglyph)).

See also

References

  1. ^ Randall-MacIver, David (1902). El Amrah and Abydos, 1899-1901. London : Egypt Exploration Fund. p. Plate VIII.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  2. ^ Corpus of Ancient Egyptian palettes, Min Palette, Naqada IId; [1]
  3. ^ Betro. Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, p 211, "Min's emblem on a cosmetic palette."

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