ART HIS 20 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Mastaba, Saqqara, Narmer
28 Oct 2016
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Palette of narmer, hierakonpolis, egypt, 3150 bce (continued) Hathor, the goddess depicted by the two cow"s head and is associated with fertility and represents a divine witnessing of the event and it supporting it: lower most register . 2 nude figures nude means low status and below the feet of the king (he is defeating him and has power over them) mangled position (dead or injured, reference to the vanquished) Small people holding standards (equivalent of flags) Nome equivalent to our state (they have their own capital cities: right side of register - a stack of decapitated bodies with their heads between their legs. Rendered stylistically so as not to confuse the viewer. Scene of an aftermath of battle: next register- 2 creatures (snake giraffe and feline) intertwined to form a figure 8. Controlled by leash from two human figures.
