Hunters Palette

The Hunters Palette (c. 3100 B.C.E.) (also known as the Lion Hunt Palette) is an Ancient Egyptian cosmetic palette showing a complex iconographic lion hunt as well as other animals. The hunt includes birds, desert hares, and gazelle-types; one gazelle is being contained by a rope.

The weapons used in the 20-man hunt are the bow and arrow, mace clubs, throwing sticks, and spears.

Two icongraphic conjoined bull-forefronts adorn the upper right alongside a hieroglyphic-like symbol, (similar to the sanctuary of Lower Egypt.^[1]

The palette is broken: part is held by the British Museum and part is in the collection of the Louvre.

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  Louvre fragment showing various weapons

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  British Museum fragment: Detail of end, lion with arrows

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  Hunters Palette, details, especially a lion's body with arrows.

References

See also

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Hunters Palette.

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• Cosmetic palette

External links

• British Museum page on the Palette
• Photo of Hunters Palette
• Predynastic palette corpus
• the Louvre fragment

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