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| Part of the Scorpion Macehead |
A second, microscopic macehead fragment showing Scorpion wearing the Red Crown of Lower Egypt is concerned to as the Minor Scorpion macehead.
Ancient Egyptian portrayal obeyed a number of conventions. Perspective being unknown, depth was often suggested at by depicting a more last scene above a closer one. People's lower body, their legs, arms, and head were almost always showed in profile, while their trunk was showed in frontal view, as was the eye. Legs are always separated. Size was frequently dependent on status, kings being showed larger than their subscripts.
On the macehead the king clean a bull's tail is dead by a body of water, credibly a canal, holding a hoe. He is heavy the White Crown of Upper Egypt and is followed by two fan bearers. A scorpion and a rosette are shown close to his head. He is facing a man holding a basket and men making standards. A number of men are busy along the banks of the canal. In the put up of the king's retinue are some plants, a group of women applauding their hands and a little group of people, all of them looking away from the king. In the top read there is a row of nome measures. A bird is dangling from each of them, strung up by its neck.
Little is left of this macehead and its imagery: A king heavy the Red Crown of Lower Egypt, sitting on a throne under a canopy, holding a lick. Besides his head pictures of a scorpion and a rosette. Looking him is a falcon who may be having an end of a rope in one of its claws - a motif also present on the Narmer Palette.
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