BAL85720 The Battlefield Palette, depicting captives and slain victims of battle, the latter preyed upon by wild animals, Late Predynastic to 1st Dynasty, c.3100 BC (grey schist) by Egyptian; height: 31 cm; British Museum, London, UK; (add.info.: upper part is a cast of a fragment in the Ashmolean, Oxford; lion probably represents the king seizing his enemies;); Egyptian, out of copyright.