A list of a small subset of ancient Egyptian palettes, ranging in the Naqada periods, 4th millennium BC, probably mostly from ~3500 to 3000 BC; some palettes may be from the later period of the earliest 3rd millennium BC. These cosmetic palettes come in numerous shapes and sizes, and were often found in tombs or graves. They were preceded by a period of palettes called rhomboidal palettes, unadorned, and without the cosmetic mixing circle found on some of the later Naqada period palettes.

Alphabetical individual listing, (abbreviated)

palette (Brooklyn)" (bird-resting, on its feet) Minor Hierakonpolis Dogs Palette'' (See zoomorphic palette)

List of ancient Egyptian Predynastic palettes

Shield-shape palettes

A list of shield-shaped palettes; the majority are vertically oriented. (The Hunters Palette is an example of a horizontally-oriented palette.)

Zoomorphic palettes

A list of zoomorphic, or animal style Egyptian palettes.

Bird palettes

Miscellaneous palettes, fragments

Egyptian hieroglyphs and the palette's corpus

A list of the Egyptian hieroglyphs and the individual palettes.

Gerzeh Palette

The Gerzeh Palette, or "Hathor Palette", "Cow-Head Palette" has topics containing 5-stars, a pair of horns, and a stylized "head". The hieroglyphs are:, , and possibly a relation to , Hathor-sistrum, (the shape of the cow's head, as on the Narmer Palette), and.

Min Palette

The only adornment is a "typographic ligature" style combination of the archaic "Min symbol"-- with the hieroglyph for "crook-staff"-- (1/4 of palette face).

Galleries

Zoomorphic gallery

Miscellaneous pallettes