Pulling early kingship together

In 1898, shortly before Flinders Petrie discovered the tombs of the first pharaohs at Abydos, James Ouibell (1867-1935) and Frederick Green (1869-1949) were working at the site of Hierakonpolis, south of modern Luxor. They found the spectacular palette of Narmer (seeKing Catfish, p. 40). The palette...

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Zusammenfassung:	In 1898, shortly before Flinders Petrie discovered the tombs of the first pharaohs at Abydos, James Ouibell (1867-1935) and Frederick Green (1869-1949) were working at the site of Hierakonpolis, south of modern Luxor. They found the spectacular palette of Narmer (seeKing Catfish, p. 40). The palette is the earliest monumental representation of a pharaoh and, for many today, it embodies the origins of Egyptian civilization. Yet the more the Narmer palette was vested with symbolic value by Egyptologists, the further it was dissociated from its archaeological context. The palette was found in a temple deposit, together with more than