This object's main companion piece may feature a predecessor of the Nine Bows insignia, and depicts a marriage ceremony with Neithhotep.
The top of this object features the catfish and chisel figures, which read in a phonetic sequence. Three bull figures, references to the goddess Bat, surround a central image of two serpopards with their necks intertwined on one portion of this object; on the reverse side, a man kneels while the namesake figure wields a mace. The goddesses Nekhbet and Wadjet are suggested by the Deshret and Hedjet – the Red and White crowns – notably depicted in this piece atop the head of its namesake. This object's main companion piece may feature a predecessor of the Nine Bows insignia, and depicts a marriage ceremony with Neithhotep. That macehead was found along with this piece at Hierakonopolis's Main Deposit, which also contained a macehead depicting the Scorpion King. Considered a symbol of the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt, this was, for 10 points, what slab that depicts the namesake pharaoh of early Egypt, a unifier known to the Greeks as Menes?
The top of this object features the catfish and chisel figures, which read in a phonetic sequence.
{Narmer Palette} (accept {Great Hierakonopolis Palette} before mentioned; do not accept “the {Menes Palette},” which is not a {thing})