Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Pre-Historic Palette-Naqada III culture. "Special articles"


Pre-Historic Palette-Naqada III culture. "Special articles"

It can be a unique experience for those who are fortunate for being familiar with Egypt Pre-Historic cultures" 6000-3000 B.C", and once they become able to observe it a lot more detailed. The collections of Pre-Historic cultures that are kept in the Egyptian Museum, the British Museum, the Louvre Museum and the others which include very informative and descriptive palettes and tablets refer much to that deeply antique époque. A lot of these tablets were commemoratives and created in record of a victory after a civil war or after a war with other nations such as the commemorative mace cover that describes the unification trial of the Scorpion king "4000 B.C" or the Libyan tablet which depicts an Egyptian defeat to the Tehno Libyan tribes. The pre-historic slate tablet represents the unstable status of Egypt during Naqada III "4000 B.C" and a civil war that was between Naqada culture or Upper-Egypt and northerners of Lower-Egypt. The upper part of the tablet represents captives are bound in poles with stylized arms that grasp each of the captives and in a shape of a war adze. Also we observe carrion-birds that stand still on each pole which emphasize a traditional technique of torture or punishment and that what could have inspired the ancients with the first crucifixion. Also we see the circle that is often found on pre historic tablets and next to that a carving of a high ranking captive is led by elegantly dressed man with a sophisticate rope that has fringes and ornaments. We can observe the high quality of the outfit and the quality of the metal or the stone in each of the war adzes. Generally, carvings represent a busy battle field with corpses of dead soldiers all are bearded with northern appearance similarly to those who were represented in Narmers palette "3200 B.C" and with many carrion-birds around such as vultures and crows. Also a carving of a lion that fierce eats a corpse.
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