The Battlefield Palette obverse contains the circular defined area for the mixing of a cosmetic substance. It contains the battlefield scene, and forerunners of hieroglyphs:
prisoner, tribal-territory
wooden standard, the
horus-falcon and an
ibis bird resting on standards. The fractured lower half of the prisoner on the obverse right may have a hieroglyph at his front (the rectangle, as rounded for land) with suspected papyrus plants attached on top. The reverse of the palette has dramatically stylized versions of a bird, two antelope-like mammals, a vertical palm-tree trunk, a partial top with fruits, and short horizontal palm fronds.
Robed individual and defeated enemies An individual in robe appears fragmentarily behind naked prisoners. He may be wearing a full-length dress made of leopard skin, The fragment in front of the prisoner may possibly be part of the ancient sign for "
Libya", an early enemy of pre-Dynastic Egyptian kings. The character would consist in the throwing stick on top of an oval, meaning "region", "place", "island", a toponym of Libya or Western Delta pronounced
THnw,
Tjehenw, as seen on the
Libyan Palette. File:Man in patterned and fringed dress, behind naked prisoner, The Battlefield Palette 3100 BCE (reconstruction).jpg|Man in patterned and fringed dress (probably a Libyan), behind naked prisoner. File:Prisoners on the Battlefield Palette.jpg|The prisoners on the Battlefield Palette may be people of the
Buto-Maadi culture subjected by the Egyptian rulers of
Naqada III. ==See also==