The Min Palette is a flat slate palette, unadorned, with no
iconographic scenes. Two topics are displayed on the palette. The
Symbol of Min, a
compound-type hieroglyph arrangement, is centered at the top of the palette, and comprises 1/4 of the palette's front. The other motifs are
opposed-facing bird heads on each top corner; the heads are small, with a thin neck, about a tenth the height of the palette, and the right head is damaged. A small suspension hole is centered on the palette's top.
Min's emblem The
Emblem of Min on the palette is a
typographic ligature of two
Egyptian hieroglyphs–R23 and S39. The later horizontal form of the
Min symbol (hieroglyph), (consisting of two opposing-faced arrows), is shown in an archaic form. Centered vertically overlaying the Min hieroglyph is a vertical "crook" or staff, the version of the 'straight staff', (see
Crook-staff (Luwian hieroglyph)). ==See also==