Description

The Abu 'Umuri Palette
Cairo J.E. 71326
Abu Umuri, tomb 60 (near Nag Hammadi)
(24x13,4cm)

Bibliography
P. Kaplony, Eine Schminkpalette von Konug Scorpion aus Abu 'Umuri, Orientalia 34 (1965) p. 132-167 pl. 19, 20

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Kaplony dates this abbozzo of palette to the reign of King Scorpion. The incision could be, IMO, later (Ist dynasty) and it should not be linked to that king: the scorpions are three, smaller than the falcon (-god) and evidently "controlled" by him, looking as tied to a rope or fixed onto a bar (cfr. also the rock drawing near Wadi Halfa in W. Needler, JARCE 6, 87-92, fig.1-5, which is instead earlier -IMO- than Scorpion II).
Also cf. S. Hendrickx, D. Huyge, B. Adams, Le scorpion en silex du Musée royal de Mariemont, in: Cahiers de Mariemont 28/29, 1997/1998, 7-33 (22-23)