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kind of flail. The two signs in from of him represent his name,
but they are not written in the serekh .
He is again followed by his sandal-bearer. The king is preceded
by a long-haired person wearing panthers skin identified by 2
hieroglyphs as tjet,( vizier).And four standard bearers. These
standards might be the emblems of the regions that already
belonged to Narmer.
The third register shows a symmetrical group of 2 opposing
animals with long nicks twisted round one another, each
controlled by a rope around its neck that is held by a male
figure. This perhaps represents the forces of chaos that the
king had to make to unit Egypt.
Between the animal's necks, a circular area is a bit deeper than
the palette's surface. This lower circular area indicates the
place where a cosmetic was put if this were not a ceremonial
palette.
The scene at the bottom of the palette's back face continues
the imagery of conquest and victory. A bull, almost certainly a
symbol of the king's vigour and strength, tramples a fallen
enemy and attacks the walls of a city or fortress with its horns.
This fortress might be a sympol of Lower Egypt and this is
another evidence that the king controlled Upper and Lower
Egypt.
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