Description
Battlefield palette
(Vultures palette, Giraffes palette, Lion palette)
British Museum 20791 + Ashmolean Mus. 1892.1171 (upper left), (+ Lucerne fragment* some cm. up-right of B.M. recto)
Unprovenanced (Abydos ?) - h. only main B.M. piece 19,6 cm, both 32,8 cm (x 28,7) (schist)
*(Kofler-Truniger)

Bibliography
Steindorff, Aegyptiaca ... FS Ebers p. 131-2
Legge, P.S.B.A. 22 p. 270-1, pl. 6; id., P.S.B.A. 31 p. 297ff, pl. 42, 42a
J. Capart, Les debuts de l' art en Egypte p. 230-1 (Ashmol. fragm.), 232-3 (B.M. fragm.), 234-4
T.E.Peet, The Art of Predynastic Period, J.E.A. 2, pl. 14-15
Scharff, Altertumer ... p. 75, fig. 52
L. Keimer, L' Identification de l'hiéroglyphe NH, ASAE 38, 1938/ 253-263 + Notes Additionelles ibid./ 689-690
L. Keimer, Quelques nouvelles remarques au sujet de l' Hieroglyphe NH, ASAE 41, 1942/ 325-32
L. Keimer, Deux representations Egyptiennes du Gerenuk, ASAE 41, 1942, 161-181 (proposes 2 Gerenuks rather than giraffes)
W.S. Smith, H.E.S.P.O.K. p. 112, fig. 27
Schott, Hieroglyphen, pl. 2, fig. 4
Vandier, Manuel I p. 584-585, fig. 385, 384
Petrie, Ceremonial Slate Palettes pl. E14, D13 ("Two Gazelles Palette")
H. Asselberghs, Chaos en Beheersing ... 1961, pl. 90, fig.157,158 (Lucerne fragm.); main fragments n. 151-154 p. 334-5
H.W. Muller, Ein neues Fragment einer reliefsgeschmuckten Schminkpalette aus Abydos, Z.A.S. 84, 1959, 68-70, pl. 3b
H.W. Muller, Agyptische Kunstwerke, Kleinfunde und Glas in der Sammlung E.M. Kofler-Truniger, Berlin (1964)
J.R. Harris, 'A New Fragment of the Battlefield Palette' J.E.A. 46 p.104-5
Weill, Ire Dynastie, pt. II, 180-2 (with bibliogr.; wrong size given)
W.S. Smith, Two Archaic Egyptian Sculptures, BMFA 65, 1967, 70ff.
Spencer, E.D.O. p. 79-80 (with full bibliogr.) n. 576, pl. 64
Cialowicz, Les palettes ... Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization 3, 1991, 53-54 [verso only (+ bibl.)]
J.O. Gransard-Desmond, Les Canidae de la Prehistoire a la Iere Dynastie en Egypte et en Nubie, 1999, (Corpus n. 74)
K.M. Cialowicz, La naissance d' un royaume, 2001 p. 176ff, fig. 26.

- The color photo of the BM recto fragment (link BM20791 above) is provided by Jon Bodsworth of GIZAVIEW
- The 1978 Swiss Exibition catalog text and photo-scan of the Lucerne fragment has been provided by Peter Hardy

- ANOTHER LINK: http://www.cama.org.za/artafric/RA1_18t.htm

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