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It is through an iconography carried by remarkable objects like the knives and the pallets with make-up that the image of the royalty emerges from the Neolithic period. Like illustrations, two well-known examples are presented here dating from the immediately predynastic period or the dynastic period without it being possible to allot them to a given king, because few of these objects were found at the time of excavations (cf Vercoutter, 1992).

The knife of the Gebel-el-Arak has been bought, what returns its difficult dating. It would come from this gebel in the south of Abydos. Some discovered a  mesopotamian influence there with the king's representation in master of the animals. The stick is sculpted in ivory of hippo. Its iconography constitutes a transformation in relation to the other sticks of knives. On recovered 6 sticks, 4 are sculpted with animals; an in disrepair watch of the characters and this one gives the king's representation.

 

It is some in the same way for the bull palette , of which only the analysis of the style permits to give an idea of the time. Its importance comes notably from  the representation of the signs. The king is under the shape of the bull, comparison that will last during history. Ramesses II is a "powerful bull liked of Ma'at."

 

You can have some details on these objects that are in the Museum of the Louvre while clicking on the links below the small pictures.

 

The knife of Gebel-el-Arak

 

The bull palette

 

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