Read the Narmer Palettes: The First Paraoh

Narmer palettes (왼: British Museum 오: 이집트 관광청)

The Narmer palettes, which was buried on the floor of a temple in Hierakonpolis, Upper Egypt, was found along with "mace-head". The discovery of these two became conclusive evidence that proved the existence of the first pharaoh that existed only in mythology.
The shield-like Narmer decorative plate was a ceremonial object buried on the floor of the temple in a ceremonial sense to commemorate the construction of the temple. The reason why this stone plate is named as a cosmetic plate or palette is that it is shaped like a palette for eye makeup. The pharaohs usually wore deep eye makeup and were part of the Egyptians who pursued perfect and unchanging beauty, but they were originally based on Egyptian mythology. The "eye" of the pharaoh's guardian gods Horus and the sun god Ra were important parts of the gods, symbolizing the source of "sacred power" and "protection." Therefore, Pharaoh's eye makeup shows the divine nature of communicating with the gods.

<Malachite> (위키피디아)
 <Galena> (브리태니커)

 <Powered Kohl> (위키피디아)

Malachite, galena and kohl, the ingredients of cosmetics, were expensive because they had to be imported from the Sinai Peninsula and the Red Sea coast. Through this, it can be seen that active trade took place even at the time when Narmer's Palettes was manufactured. Kohl, another ingredient, contained insect repellent ingredients such as flies, preventing access to pests. Kohl's black color also protected his eyes from the direct sunlight that blazed down all year round.

• Hair engraved with the image of Baat, a cow-faced goddess with horns bent inward.
  
• Narmer, who unified Upper-lower Egypt, is with a servant holding shoes (sandles), a procession of pharaohs and servants holding rituals.
• Motivation to defeat and subdue the enemy
• The image of the enemy conquered by the pharaohs

The Narmer makeup board is largely divided into four parts as above. On the Narmer Cremation Board, you can see a cow's head-shaped decoration on both the front and the back. It is divided into a head carved with an inwardly curved horned bull-faced goddess Baat, a second part of the procession of Narmer, the first pharaoh to unify Upper and Lower Egypt, holding a barefoot ritual in a sacred area with his subjects., the first Pharaoh to unify Egypt, a third part of the motif of defeating and overpowering the enemy, and a fourth part of the story of an enemy conquered by the Pharaoh. All of this motifs have been repeated for 3000 years

 <Cow face goddess Hathor>(앨라배마 대학교) 

Situated at the top of the Narmer crematorium, the Baat goddess was worshipped in the seventh Nome state of Upper Egypt. Unlike the cow of the "Hathor goddess" whose horns are facing outward, Baat, who is expressed as a cow with horns facing inward, was an ancient heavenly goddess that has been worshipped since before the dynasty.

Above all, if you look closely at the headdress between the goddess Baat, you can find fish-shaped paintings and awl-shaped symbols in a square box. These paintings are ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics that show their completed form from the beginning. The two hieroglyphics are read as [Naar-Mer], and the hieroglyphics indicate that the owner of the plaque is named 'Narmer'.

 <Narmer’s name with Serekh >

The box containing King Narmer's name, which is pronounced as fish and awls, is "Serekh." Serekh can be said to be the origin of the "Cartouche" that contains the name of the pharaoh. Just like Cartouche, which can only contain the name of the pharaoh, this 'Serekh' also contains only the name of the pharaoh.