Thursday, January 20, 2011

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Egyptian Archaeology: Archaeology



OXFORD PALETTE O Hierakonpolis. Ashmolean Museum, Nagada III


PALETTE Tehenu, LIBYA OR THE CITIES

Tehenu Palette, Libya or the cities, Nagada III period, here in second place, is now in the Cairo Museum . It probably represents the conquest of several Libyan cities. Oxford palette, double initial image, belongs to the cycle of hunting in the steppe. It prevails in the canine ridge reasons, we do not know whether they are domestic dogs, wild or even a kind of fantasy wolf later became the embodiment of Seth. Is also a long-necked monster serpent, similar a dinosaur, which in Sumerian art and Narmer palette weaves her neck with a similar. Amidst the fauna of the steppe and savanna, lively represented Oxford palette contains two unique reasons: first, a lion head and wings of an eagle (wings represented as a comb backwards), to be considered one of the prototypes of classical tap, and second, the presence of a hunter who, disguised as a dog, is introduced between the wild animals playing the flute.

Prof. Dr. Julio Lopez Saco

UCV-UCAB , January 20, 2011




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