One Thing I'm Extremely Not Normal About Is This Serekh Of King Djet, Dating To The First Dynasty. A

One thing I'm extremely not normal about is this serekh of king Djet, dating to the First Dynasty. A serekh is the rectangular structure in the stela you see here, and it's a depiction of a palace façade and interior enclosure. It usually depicts the Horus falcon stood atop it, indicating the name enclosed within was that of the king. In this case, Djet's name is simply rendered by hieroglyph I10, the cobra in repose, ḏ (dj).

Now I'm not normal about this one because they've taken so much compositional care with it. And no, that shouldn't surprise you because the Egyptians loved their symmetry-even-in-asymmetry, but with a stela that's as old and as relatively subdued as this one it just always hit me different. The way the falcon is centred rather than the serekh, his tail tip being almost the same distance away from the right outer edge as the left end of the serekh is from the left one, to still ground it within the frame like that? The way the detail in the facade part of the serekh is rendered, how the snout of the snake reaches to the top left corner of the enclosure part and the tip of its snake touches the lower right corner... ugh.

CW: animal death

People have asked for more interactions between Life and Death. Life is bringing so much color into my comics haha <3

An “initiation well,” used in magical rites, which was excavated at the Quinta da Regaleira estate in Sintra, Portugal.  

Can we go back to having dragons for car horns please?

just a friendly reminder that june 6th, 1218 b.c. was identified as the day patroclus was killed by hector in the trojan war. patroclus died 3240 years ago today.

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