Min Palette
The Min Palette, or El Amrah Palette is an
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
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', [2] (see Crook-staff (Luwian hieroglyph)
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See also
References
Further reading
- Betrò, Maria Carmela. ISBN 0-7892-0232-8)