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The Narmer Macehead forms part of the Main Deposit found in 1899 at Hierakonpolis, and is now housed in the Ashmolean Museum,Oxford. The scene portrayed is believed to have a location somewhere within Lower Egypt due to the shrine with a pitched roof with heron on top as this is the shrine of Djebaut, a district of Buto in north-western Delta. However this theory is complicated by the wavy walled enclosure shown which looks like a structure recently found at Hierakonpolis. Behind the seated figure of Narmer it is possible that a Vizier (ṯt) may be shown though the hieroglyphs do not have the full term (ṯ3iti), his sandal-bearer is also portrayed below him and above the king is represented Nekhet hovering protectively above him . There are also standard bearers portraying too falcons, Wepwa

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