RELIGN M132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Narmer Palette, Eighteenth Dynasty Of Egypt, Third Dynasty Of Egypt

• School: UCLA
• Department: Religion, Study of
• Course: RELIGN M132
• Professor: Kathlyn Cooney

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So the image that you see in front of you now is the so-called narmer palette, named after one of. Egypt"s very first kings, a king named narmer. >> and he is there smiting an enemy, holding his stone mace aloft above his head and getting ready to bring it down on that enemy skull. Very typical egyptian thing to share the moment before the blow, the moment after the glow. >> but you don"t show the moment of the carnage itself. >> and it"s the way of presenting a king that will get his hands bloody. >> but it"s unseemly to show him getting his hands bloody. He"s, he"s able to keep egypt safe with almost through the images of what could happen or will happen alone. >> and then the rest of it, the actual blow itself, you have to imagine now, the king of egypt was divine in every respect.