Symbols of unification -1

The central section of the relief decoration on a side of the justly famous ‘Narmer Palette’, also discovered at Hierakonpolis, and now in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, is composed of a pair of serpopards with extremely long necks which are intertwined, and whose heads are turned to confront each other. Their necks also form the circular area where the prized eye-paint, malachite or galena, would have been prepared, if this were an actual functional palette. These fictitious marvels are being restrained on leashes by two male handlers.
According to several leading scholars who specialize in the study of the first Egyptians, this motif is likely to symbolize the early unification of Upper and Lower Egypt. As such, it might be a forerunner of when, at a later date, the two emblematic plants of the respective kingdoms were similarly interwoven.