Narmer Palette

1) Narmer is portrayed as a violent leader. He is shown as being an arrogant vicious person that sees himself bigger than everyone else. He stands over the top of a pile of bodies and is about to add one more to the pile in the first scene. He also always has a servant following behind him carrying his shoes and a tea pot (I guess murdering people makes you thirsty and crave tea?) The god Horus, represented by the falcon (Western Civilization, Volume 1, page 26) watches over him. His…

Kingdom. I will be cornering in on the art of the Palate of King Narmer, the Fragmentary head of Senuret III, and Akhenaton, Nefertiti, and three daughters. I will also be discussing “Egypt’s Golden Empire: The Warrior Pharaohs”. In the Old Kingdom, the front and back carvings on the Palette of King Narmer were of big focus. Dated circa 3000-2920 BCE, from Hierakonpolis, Egypt, in the Predynastic era, this work was a symbolic makeup palette. This pigment applied to one’s face was necessary…

Egypt has been known as one of the most advanced civilizations in the world for thousands of years, and their culture became one of the most interesting and fascinating ones. In this book, the author discusses the different meanings found in the “Narmer Palette”, which is an archeological find, and it represented the art and meaning of ancient Egypt. From that, many Egyptologists learned about the history and significance of the Egyptian culture. One of the most interesting aspects of this book…

monarchy deeming King Narmer as the ruler. During this time Egyptian artists began making narrative reliefs and paintings, including one of the earliest documented historical artwork, the Narmer palette. King Narmer’s image and name appear on both sides of the ceremonial plate. Although people are still unsure of what this palette actually depicts, the theory is that it shows the unification of the two kingdoms (upper and lower Egypt) at the end of the Predynastic era. The palette also shows a…

In Pre-dynastic times, Egypt was divided into Upper and Lower Egypt, most of the major findings were found in Upper Egypt. The architecture in pre-dynastic Egypt is focused on ensuring safety and happiness in the next life. Pre-dynastic architecture started with mastabas which were the standard type of tomb in early Egypt. The mastaba consisted of rectangular brick. Mastabas started out as single burials that quickly changed which made it accommodate multiple families. The most influential…

position Egyptians often took. Only the Pharaoh was able to wear this Mask, it was designed and made especially for him to wear, with a royal head cloth called the “nemes”. Another famous piece of work done by the Egyptians was “The Palette of Narmer”, The Palette of Narmer is decorated on the front and back with low relief…

The cultural event that I visited was the Chrysler Museum of Art located in Norfolk, Virginia on July 31, 2016. Before the museum was named the Chrysler Museum of Art it was the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences. Walter Chrysler, Jr. came to Norfolk, Virginia in 1971, bringing with him, collections of art in the thousands. Walter Chrysler, Jr. contributions to the museum are among many other artists that have contributed to the museum as well. This was not known when I entered the museum.…

1.1 The key political differences between Greek city-states and the Persian Empire were as follows; the Greek cities govern themselves and had different ideas as how they treated the people within their own city. For example, the Sparta was ruled by two hereditary kings in conjunction with elected board of advisors. Corinth was governed by a mercantile oligarchy, and Athens by constitutional democracy. Whereas the Persian encompassed disparate cultures and people. The Persians allowed…

example, Ancient Egyptian King Narmer was represented as a bull destroying the walls of his foes on the Palette of Narmer, created in Early Dynastic Egypt around 2950 BCE. Similarly, the Acadians that settled…

part of the palette are a mystical animal known as the serpopards two are shown with the neck enter twined which symbolizes the recess where the makeup preparation took place. And all the way at the bottom shows a bull attacking a wall which can symbolize the king as the bull and he is knocking down the wall of the city. Some have interpreted the palette as a battle scene as a historical record of what happened of an initial unification of Egypt under one ruler. Also the fact that Narmer wears…