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The Hierakonpolis Palette
(Little Hieraconpolis, Two Dogs, Oxford, Ashmolean Palette)
Ashmolean Mus. E 3924
Hierakonpolis - h. 42,5 cm (x 22) (schist)

Bibliography
Quibell-Green, Hierakonpolis II p. 41, pl. 28
Legge, P.S.B.A. 22, pl.3; id., P.S.B.A. 31 pl. 43
Schott, Hieroglyphen, pl. 1, fig. 1-2
Vandier, Manuel I fig. 381, 382
Petrie, Ceremonial Slate Palettes pl. F16, F15 ("Two Dogs Palette")
Weill, Ire Dynastie II p. 185-89 (with bibl.; reports a wrong size: cm 38 instead of 43)
Needler, Predynastic and Archaic Objects in the Brooklyn Museum p. 329 (probable chronol. posit.)
W. Davis, Masking the Blow, 1992
Cialowicz, Les palettes ... Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization 3, 1991, 43-46 (+ bibl.); 60ff.
Cialowicz, SAAC 5, Prace Arch. 54, 1992, 7ff.
J.O. Gransard-Desmond, Les Canidae de la Prehistoire a la Iere Dynastie en Egypte et en Nubie, 1999, (Corpus n. 70)
Cialowicz, La naissance d' un royaume... 2001 p. 191-194

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A further photo of Ashmolean Museum E3924 verso [courtesy Jon Bodsworth (Giza View)]