The Narmer macehead is an ancient Egyptian decorative stone mace head. It was found during a dig at Kom al Akhmar, the site of Hierakonpolis (ancient Egyptian Nekhen.) It is dated to the reign of king Narmer whose serekh is engraved on it. Today it is kept at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
Motifs
The macehead may represent the dynastic marriage of the victorious Narmer, pharaoh of Upper Egypt with Nithotep or Neithhotep A, a princess of the defeated Lower Egypt. Narmer wears the red crown of Lower Egypt and over him hovers the protective vulture, Nekhbet local goddess of Nekhen, the religious and political capital of predynastic Upper Egypt . Behind the princess appears a proto-Nine bows, which in later times represented the enemies of Egypt. [1]
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References
- ^ Walter B Emery, Archaic Egypt, Pelican Books,1961
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