Narmer Macehead
Cabeza de maza de Narmer
- Date
- 1898 · confidence high
- Place
- Hierakonpolis, Egypt
- Credited to
- James Quibell
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
A decorated limestone macehead found in the main deposit of the temple at Hierakonpolis, depicting ritual scenes of King Narmer from the beginning of Dynastic Egypt.
What it led to
- provided key iconographic evidence on the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
- became, alongside the Narmer Palette, a central source for studying the origins of the Egyptian state
- spurred study of votive maceheads as a genre of predynastic royal art