Pallet of Narmer
3100 B.C. slate, height 25”
Egyptian Museum, Cairo
This is a piece of pottery made from the ancient Egyptians. It displays great proportion of the human body, with the use of geometric shapes and two dimensional lines. The Egyptians used the form of the human body the same way for 3,000 years. They use grids to outline the head and body so it will be to scale and so it will be well proportioned.
Egyptians used the same scales, and grids no matter how big the piece of work. They would decorate their pharos’ grave sites all around the wall, and also build great sculptures. Nonetheless, they only things that would change would be the position of the arms and legs.
