The Hunters Palette or Lion Hunt Palette is a 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.
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The Hunters Palette shows a complex
iconography of
lion hunting as well as the hunt of other animals such as birds, desert
, 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,
, flint knives, and
. Two iconographic conjoined bull-forefronts adorn the upper right alongside a hieroglyphic-like symbol similar to the "shrine" hieroglyph,
sḥ.
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==Details==
See also
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List of ancient Egyptian palettes
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