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((short description|Egyptian archaeological artifact))
((infobox artifact
|name = Narmer Palette
|image = Narmer Palette.jpg
|image_caption =Both sides of the Narmer Palette
|image_size=300
|material = [[Siltstone]]
|size = ((c.|64 cm)) × 42 cm
|writing =
|created = 3200–3000 BC (circa)
|discovered_place= [[Hierakonpolis]]
|discovered_date = 1897–1898
|discovered_by = [[James Quibell]]<br>[[Frederick W. Green (Egyptologist)|Frederick W. Green]]
|location = [[Egyptian Museum]], [[Cairo]]
|id = CG 14716
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The '''Narmer Palette''', also known as the '''Great Hierakonpolis Palette''' or the '''Palette of Narmer''', is a significant [[Egypt]]ian archaeological find, dating from about the 31st century BC, belonging, at least nominally, to the category of [[cosmetic palette]]s. It contains some of the earliest [[Egyptian hieroglyphs|hieroglyphic]] inscriptions ever found. The tablet is thought by some to depict the unification of [[Upper Egypt|Upper]] and [[Lower Egypt]] under the king [[Narmer]]. Along with the [[Scorpion Macehead]] and the [[Narmer Macehead]]s, also found together in the main deposit at [[Nekhen]], the Narmer Palette provides one of the earliest known depictions of an Egyptian king. On one side, the king is depicted with the bulbed [[Hedjet|White Crown]] of Upper (southern) Egypt, and the other side depicts the king wearing the level [[Deshret|Red Crown]] of Lower (northern) Egypt, which also makes it the earliest known example of a king wearing both types of headdress.<ref>Friedman, Renée. “City of the Hawk.” ''Archaeology'', vol. 56, no. 6, 2003, pp. 50–56. Accessed 7 Jul. 2022.</ref> The Palette shows many of the classic conventions of [[Ancient Egyptian art]], which must already have been formalized by the time of the Palette's creation.<ref>Wilkinson, Toby A. H. ''Early Dynastic Egypt''. p.6 Routledge, London. 1999. ((ISBN|0-203-20421-2))</ref> The Egyptologist [[Bob Brier]] has referred to the Narmer Palette as "the first historical document in the world".<ref>Brier, Bob. ''Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians'', A. Hoyt Hobbs 1999, p.202</ref>

The Palette, which has survived five millennia in almost perfect condition, was discovered by [[United Kingdom|British]] [[archeologist]]s [[James E. Quibell]] and [[Frederick W. Green (Egyptologist)|Frederick W. Green]], in what they called the Main Deposit in the [[Nekhen#Horus cult center|Temple of Horus]] at [[Nekhen]], during the dig season of 1897–98.<ref>[https://archive.org/download/hierakonpolis00greegoog/hierakonpolis00greegoog.pdf] J. E. Quibell, Hierakonpolis pt. I. Plates of discoveries in 1898 by J. E. Quibell, with notes by W. M. F. Petrie, Quaritch, 1900</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/download/hierakonpolis00petrgoog/hierakonpolis00petrgoog.pdf] J. E. Quibell, Hierakonpolis pt. II. Plates of discoveries, 1898–99, with Description of the site in detail, by F. W. Green., Quaritch, 1902</ref><ref>[http://www.ancient-egypt.org/kings/0101_narmer/palette.html The Ancient Egypt Site – The Narmer Palette] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060615113238/http://www.ancient-egypt.org/kings/0101_narmer/palette.html |date=2006-06-15 )) accessed September 19, 2007</ref> Also found at this dig were the Narmer Macehead and the Scorpion Macehead.<ref>Millet, N. B. “The Narmer Macehead and Related Objects.” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, vol. 27, 1990, pp. 53–59</ref> The exact place and circumstances of these finds were not recorded very clearly by Quibell and Green. In fact, Green's report placed the Palette in a different layer one or two yards away from the deposit, which is considered to be more accurate on the basis of the original excavation notes.<ref>Shaw, Ian. ''Exploring Ancient Egypt.'' p.33 Oxford University Press, 2003.</ref> It has been suggested that these objects were royal donations made to the temple.<ref>Bard, Kathryn A. ''The Emergence of the Egyptian State'', in ''The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt.'' Ed. Ian Shaw, p.61. Oxford University Press, 2000</ref> Nekhen, or Hierakonpolis, was one of four power centers in [[Upper Egypt]] that preceded the consolidation of Upper Egypt at the end of the Naqada III period.((sfn|Wilkinson|1999|pp=36–41)) Hierakonpolis's religious importance continued long after its political role had declined.((sfn|Friedman|2001|pp=98–100, volume 2)) [[Cosmetic palette|Palettes]] were typically used for grinding cosmetics, but this palette is too large and heavy (and elaborate) to have been created for personal use and was probably a ritual or votive object, specifically made for donation to, or use in, a temple. One theory is that it was used to grind cosmetics to adorn the statues of the deities.<ref>Brier, Bob. ''Great Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt'', ''The Great Courses'' lecture series</ref>

The Narmer Palette is part of the permanent collection of the [[Egyptian Museum]] in [[Cairo]].<ref name="Shaw, Ian 2004">Shaw, Ian. ''Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction.'' p.4. Oxford Press, 2004.</ref> It is one of the initial exhibits which visitors have been able to see when entering the museum.<ref name="Shaw, Ian 2004"/>  It has the ''Journal d'Entrée'' number JE32169 and the ''Catalogue Général'' number CG14716.

==Description==
[[File:Narmer Palette verso serekh.png|thumb|right|[[Serekh]]s bearing the [[rebus]] symbols ''n'r'' (catfish) and ''mr'' (chisel) inside, being the phonetic representation of Narmer's name<ref name="Wengrow"/>]]
The Narmer Palette is a ((convert|63|cm|ft|adj=mid|-tall)), shield-shaped, ceremonial palette, carved from a single piece of flat, soft dark gray-green [[siltstone]]. The stone has often been wrongly identified, in the past, as being [[slate]] or [[schist]]. Slate is layered and prone to flaking, and schist is a [[metamorphic rock]] containing large, randomly distributed mineral grains. Both are unlike the finely grained, hard, flake-resistant siltstone, whose source is from a well-attested quarry that has been used since pre-dynastic times at [[Wadi Hammamat]].<ref name="Shaw">Shaw, Ian. ''Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction''. pp.44–45. Oxford University Press, 2004.</ref> This material was used extensively during the [[predynastic Egypt|pre-dynastic period]] for creating such palettes and also was used as a source for [[Old Kingdom]] statuary. A statue of the 2nd dynasty pharaoh [[Khasekhemwy]], found in the same complex as the Narmer Palette at Hierakonpolis, also was made of this material.<ref name=Shaw/>

[[File:Early hieroglyphic symbols on the Narmer plate.jpg|thumb|left|Early hieroglyphic symbols on the Narmer Palette]]
The Palette is carved in low [[relief]]. At the top of both sides is an identical royal insignia called a [[serekh]], which is "a composite hieroglyphic symbol standing for the king/crown/state and the state's property."<ref>((Cite book |last=Andelković |first=Branislav |url=https://oi-idb-static.uchicago.edu/multimedia/88/oimp33.pdf |title=Before the Pyramids: The Origins of Egyptian Civilization |publisher=The University of Chicago |year=2011 |isbn=978-1-885923-82-0 |editor-last=Teeter |editor-first=Emily |series=Oriental Institute Museum Publications 33 |pages=30 |language=English |chapter=Political Organization of Egypt in the Predynastic Period))</ref> The serekhs bear the [[rebus]] symbols ''n'r'' (catfish) and ''mr'' (chisel) inside, being the phonetic representation of Narmer's name.<ref name="Wengrow">[[Wengrow, David]], ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=W9OFBw7yGZkC&pg=RA3-PA207 The Archaeology of Ancient Egypt]'' Cambridge University Press, ((ISBN|978-0-521-83586-2)) p.207</ref> Both serekhs are flanked by a pair of bovine heads with highly curved horns, thought to represent the cow goddess [[Bat (goddess)|Bat]]. She was the patron deity of the seventh nome of Upper Egypt, and was also the [[:wikt:deify|deification]] of the cosmos within Egyptian mythology during the pre-dynastic and Old Kingdom periods of Ancient Egyptian history.<ref>Wilkinson, Richard H. ''The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt'', p.172 Thames & Hudson. 2003. ((ISBN|0-500-05120-8))</ref>

===Recto side===
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[[File:Narmer Palette smiting side.jpg|thumb|Narmer Palette (recto)]]
As on the other side, two human-faced bovine heads, thought to represent the patron cow goddess [[Bat (goddess)|Bat]], flank the serekhs. The goddess Bat is, as she often was, shown in portrait, rather than in profile as is traditional in Egyptian relief carving. [[Hathor]], who shared many of Bat's characteristics, is often depicted in a similar manner. Some authors((which|date=April 2022)) suggest that the images represent the vigor of the king as a pair of bulls.((cn|date=April 2022))

The largest relief on this side depicts Narmer, who lifts a royal mace in his right hand while with his left he pulls up a kneeling captive by the hair. In contrast to the verso depiction of Narmer, where he is shown with the [[Deshret|Red Crown]] of Lower Egypt, on this side he wears the [[Hedjet|White Crown]] of Upper Egypt.<ref>Fairservis, W. A. “A Revised View of the Naʿrmr Palette.” Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, vol. 28, 1991, pp. 1–20</ref> His pose reflects the  Ancient Egyptian convention of showing an important figure from multiple perspectives at once. His feet, legs and head are shown in profile, while the [[torso]] and hips turn slightly and his shoulders face the front. One eye, even though it would normally not be seen if this were an actual profile head, is also shown from the front. The purpose was to provide the most complete information possible about a person on a flat surface.<ref>((Cite book |last=Watts |first=Edith W. |title=The Art of Ancient Egypt: A Resource for Educators |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |year=1998 |location=New York |pages=44))</ref><ref>"Egyptian art and architecture." ''Britannica Library'', Encyclopædia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2020. Accessed 12 Jul. 2022.</ref> The Palette also shows the Egyptian [[artistic canons of body proportions|canon of body proportions]]. Based on an established unit correlating to the distance across the knuckles of human fist, this conventional form of measurement was a means of standardizing the proportions of important figures in Egyptian art. The standard measurement, which is already apparent in the Palette, was 18 fists from the ground to the hairline on the forehead.<ref>Smith, W. Stevenson, and Simpson, William Kelly. ''The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt'', pp. 12–13 and note 17, 3rd edn. 1998, Yale University Press (Penguin/Yale History of Art), ((ISBN|0300077475))</ref> Both artistic conventions remained in use until at least the conquest by [[Alexander the Great]] over 3,000 years later. The minor figures in active poses, such as the king's captive, the corpses and the handlers of the [[serpopard]] beasts, are much more freely depicted.

[[File:Narmer palette 83d40m hathor atop columns below belt of king.png|thumb|left|Detail of the Narmer Palette showing a belt with four beaded tassels and a fringe at the back representing a lion's tail.]]
Attached to the belt worn by Narmer are four beaded tassels, each capped with an ornament in the shape of the head of the goddess [[Hathor]]. They also are the same heads as those that adorn the top of each side of the palette. At the back of the belt is attached a long fringe representing a lion's tail.

On the left of the king is a man bearing the king's sandals, flanked by a rosette symbol. To the right of the king is a kneeling prisoner, who is about to be struck by the king. A pair of symbols appear next to his head perhaps indicating his name ([[Wash (pharaoh)|Wash]]) or indicating the region where he was from.((cn|date=April 2022)) Above the prisoner is a falcon, representing [[Horus]], perched above a set of papyrus flowers, the symbol of Lower Egypt. In his talons, he holds a rope-like object which appears to be attached to the nose of a man's head that also emerges from the papyrus flowers.

===Verso side===
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[[File:Narmer Palette serpopard side.jpg|thumb|Narmer Palette (verso)]]
Below the bovine heads is what appears to be a procession. Narmer is significantly larger than anyone else on that register, an artistic convention known variously as [[hierarchical proportion]], hierarchic scale<ref>"Sculpture." ''Britannica Library'', Encyclopædia Britannica, 19 Nov. 2020. Accessed 4 Jul. 2022.</ref> or hierarchy of scale. As on the recto, his disproportionate size reinforces the ideas of conquest and political power as a god-like leader. He wears a [[Deshret|Red Crown]] of Lower Egypt, symbolized by a papyrus. He holds a mace and a flail, two traditional symbols of kingship. To his right are the hieroglyphic symbols for his name, though not contained within a [[serekh]]. Behind him is his [[sandal-bearer]], whose name may be represented by the [[Rosette (design)|rosette]] appearing adjacent to his head, and a second rectangular symbol that has no clear interpretation, but which has been suggested may represent a town or citadel.<ref>Janson, Horst Woldemar; Anthony F. Janson ''History of Art: A Survey of the Major Visual Arts from the Dawn of History to the Present Day'' Prentice Hall 1986 ((ISBN|978-0-13-389321-2)) p.56</ref> 

Immediately in front of the pharaoh is a long-haired man, accompanied by a pair of hieroglyphs that have been interpreted as his name: ''Tshet'' (this assumes that these symbols had the same phonetic value used in later hieroglyphic writing).((cn|date=April 2022)) Before this man are four standard bearers, holding aloft an animal skin, a dog, and two falcons. At the far right of this scene are ten decapitated corpses with their heads at their feet and their severed genitals protruding from their mouths. These figures are generally understood to be victims of Narmer's conquest.<ref>Friedman, Renee. “City of the Hawk.” ''Archaeology'', vol. 56, no. 6, Nov. 2003, p. 50. Accessed 4 July 2022.</ref> Above them are the symbols for a ship, a falcon, and a harpoon, which may indicate the names of the towns that were conquered.<ref>Sheposh, Richard. “Narmer Palette.” ''Salem Press Encyclopedia'', May 2021. Accessed 4 July 2022.</ref>

[[File:Narmer-Tjet2.JPG|thumb|left|A detail from the Narmer Palette, with the oldest known depiction of [[vexilloid]]s.]]
Below the procession, two men are holding ropes tied to the outstretched, intertwining necks of two [[serpopard]]s [[Confronted-animals|confronting each other]]. The serpopard is a mythological creature, a mix of serpent and leopard. The circle formed by their curving necks is the central part of the Palette, which is the area where the cosmetics would have been ground. Upper and Lower Egypt each worshipped lioness war goddesses as protectors; the intertwined necks of the serpopards may thus represent the unification of the state. Similar images of such mythical animals are known from other contemporaneous cultures, and there are other examples of late-predynastic objects (including other palettes and knife handles such as the [[Gebel el-Arak Knife]]) which borrow similar elements from [[Mesopotamia]]n [[iconography]], suggesting [[Egypt-Mesopotamia relations]].<ref>Wilkinson, Toby A. H. ''Early Dynastic Egypt''. p.6, Routledge, London. 1999. ((ISBN|0-203-20421-2)).</ref>

At the bottom of the verso, a bull is seen knocking down the walls of a city while trampling on a fallen foe. Head lowered, Narmer is shown here as a stylized, two-dimensional beast who will vanquish his enemies. Bulls had an ideological connection to Egyptian kingship.<ref>Toby A. H. Wilkinson. “What a King Is This: Narmer and the Concept of the Ruler.” ''The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology'', vol. 86, 2000, pp. 23–32. Accessed 4 Jul. 2022.</ref> "Bull of his Mother," for example, was a common epithet given to an Egyptian king as the son of the patron cow goddess.<ref>Breasted, James Henry. ''Ancient Records of Egypt'', Chicago 1906, part Two, §§ 143, 659, 853; part Three §§ 117, 144, 147, 285 etc.</ref> This posture of a bovine has the meaning of "force" in later hieroglyphics.((Citation needed|date=July 2022))

==Scholarly debate==
The Palette has raised considerable scholarly debate over the years.<ref>Hendrickx, Stan, 2017.  [https://www.narmer.org/pdfs/Bibliography-Narmer-Palette.pdf "Narmer Palette Bibliography"]</ref> In general, the arguments fall into one of two camps: scholars who believe that the Palette is a record of an important event, and other academics who argue that it is an object designed to establish the mythology of united rule over Upper and Lower Egypt by the king.
It had been thought that the Palette either depicted the unification of [[Lower Egypt]] by the king of [[Upper Egypt]], or recorded a recent military success over the [[Ancient Libya|Libyans]],<ref>Shaw, Ian and Nicholson, Paul. ''The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt''. p.197 Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 1995. ((ISBN|0-8109-9096-2))</ref> or the last stronghold of a Lower Egyptian dynasty based in [[Buto]].<ref>Wilkinson, Toby A. H. ''Early Dynastic Egypt''. p. 40. Routledge, London. 1999. ((ISBN|0-203-20421-2))</ref> More recently, scholars such as [[Nicholas Millet]] have argued that the Palette does not represent a historical event (such as the unification of Egypt), but instead represents the events of the year in which the object was dedicated to the temple. [[Whitney Davis]] has suggested that the iconography on this and other pre-dynastic palettes has more to do with establishing the king as a visual metaphor of the conquering hunter, caught in the moment of delivering a mortal blow to his enemies.<ref>Shaw, Ian. & Nicholson, Paul. ''The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt'', pp. 196–197. The British Museum Press, 1995.</ref> [[John Baines (Egyptologist)|John Baines]] has suggested that the events portrayed are "tokens of royal achievement" from the past and that "the chief purpose of the piece is not to record an event but to assert that the king dominates the ordered world in the name of the gods and has defeated internal, and especially external, forces of disorder".<ref>Baines, John "Communication and display: the integration of early Egyptian art and writing" ''Antiquity'', vol. 63:240, 1989, pp. 471–482.</ref>

==In popular culture==
The Narmer Palette is featured in the 2009 film ''[[Watchmen (film)|Watchmen]]'' as one of the Egyptian objects that are present in Ozymandias's office. The Australian author [[Jackie French]] used the Palette, and recent research into Sumerian trade routes, to create her historical novel ''Pharaoh'' (2007). The Palette is featured in [[manga]] artist [[Yukinobu Hoshino]]'s short story "[[El Alamein no Shinden|The temple of El Alamein]]". The Palette is also featured in ''[[The Kane Chronicles]]'' by [[Rick Riordan]] where the palette is fetched by a magical [[ushabti|shawabti]] servant. In Ubisoft's 2017 game ''[[Assassin's Creed Origins]]'', the Palette is a quest item and minor plot point toward the end of the main quest's storyline.
The Narmer Palette is a main plot point in [[Lincoln Child]]’s ''[[The Third Gate]]'' novel, in which they attempt to find the tomb of king [[Narmer]] in the [[Sudd]].

==See also==
*[[List of ancient Egyptian palettes]]
*[[Libyan Palette]] (another well-known Predynastic Egyptian palette)
*[[Warka Vase]] (a comparable contemporaneous work of narrative relief sculpture from the [[Sumer]]ian civilisation)
*[[Kish tablet]]

== References ==
((Reflist))

== Bibliography ==
* ((cite book |last=Brier |first=Bob |chapter=The First Nation in History |title=History of Ancient Egypt |publisher=The Teaching Company |year=2001))
* ((cite encyclopedia |last=Friedman|first = Renée| author-link=Renée Friedman|year=2001|chapter=Hierakonpolis |editor-last=Redford| editor-first = Donald B.|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt| location =Oxford|publisher = Oxford University Press| pages = 98–100, volume 2)).
* ((cite book |last=Grimal |first=Nicolas Christophe |title=A history of Ancient Egypt |publisher=Wiley-Blackwell |location=London |year=1996 |ISBN=0-631-19396-0))
* ((cite web |last=Hendrickx|first=Stan|title=Narmer Palette Bibliography|year=2017|url=https://www.narmer.org/pdf/Bibliography-Narmer-Palette.pdf)).
* ((cite book |last=Kemp |first=Barry J. |author-link=Barry J. Kemp |title=Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilisation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IT6CAgAAQBAJ |publisher=[[Routledge]] |location=London |date=May 7, 2007 |pages=448 |isbn=978-0-415-23550-1))
* ((cite journal | author-link=Jacques Kinnaer |last=Kinnaer |first=Jacques |title=What is Really Known About the Narmer Palette? |journal=KMT: A Modern Journal of Ancient Egypt |date=Spring 2004))
* ((cite book | author-link=Whitney Davis |last=Davis |first=Whitney |title=Masking the Blow: The Scene of Representation in Late Prehistoric Egyptian Art |publisher=Berkeley |location=Oxford |year=1992 |ISBN=0-520-07488-2)).
* ((cite book |last=Wilkinson |first=Toby A. H. |title=Early Dynastic Egypt |publisher=Routledge |location=London |year=1999 |ISBN=0-415-18633-1))

==Further reading==
*Bard, Kathryn A., ed. ''Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt''. London: Routledge, 1999.
*Brewer, Douglas J. ''Ancient Egypt: Foundations of a Civilization''. Harlow, UK: Pearson, 2005.
*Davis, Whitney. ''Masking the Blow: The Scene of Representation In Late Prehistoric Egyptian Art''. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992.
*Lloyd, Alan B., ed. ''A Companion to Ancient Egypt''. Chichester, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014.
*Málek, Jaromír. ''In the Shadow of the Pyramids: Egypt during the Old Kingdom''. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.
*Redford, Donald B., ed. ''The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt''. 3 vols. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
*Shaw, Ian. ''Ancient Egypt: A Very Short Introduction''. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
*Shaw, Ian, and Paul Nicholson. ''The British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt''. Rev. ed. London: British Museum, 2008.
*Wengrow, David. ''The Archaeology of Early Egypt: Social Transformation in North-East Africa, 10,000 to 2650 BC''. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
*Wenke, Robert J. ''The Ancient Egyptian State: The Origins of Egyptian Culture (c 8000–2000 BC)''. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
*Wilkinson, Toby. ''Early Dynastic Egypt''. London: Routledge, 2001.

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* [http://www.nemo.nu/ibisportal/0egyptintro/2aegypt/index.htm Images of Narmer Palette] Scroll down to the drawing of the Palette and take the link to the photographs published by Francesco Rafaele.
* [http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/narmer/index.html The Narmer Palette: The victorious king of the south]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20031226165814/http://weber.ucsd.edu/Depts/Anthro/classes/tlevy/Tillah/narmer.html Narmer Palette (weber.ucsd.edu)]
* [http://www.ancient-egypt.org/kings/01/0101_narmer/palette.html Narmer Palette (ancient-egypt.org)]
* [http://xoomer.alice.it/francescoraf/hesyra/palettes.htm Corpus of Egyptian Late Predynastic Palettes] Images of more than fifty such palettes with various motifs
* [http://www.narmer.org/inscription/0081  ''Narmer Catalog'' (Narmer Palette)]

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Template:Reflist/styles.css (view source) (protected)
Template:SDcat (view source) (protected)
Template:Sfn (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Short description (view source) (protected)
Template:Short description/lowercasecheck (view source) (protected)
Template:Side box (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Sister project (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Sp (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Template other (view source) (protected)
Template:Trim (view source) (protected)
Template:Webarchive (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Which (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Yesno (view source) (protected)
Template:Yesno-no (view source) (template editor protected)
Template:Yesno-yes (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Arguments (view source) (protected)
Module:Authority control (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Authority control/config (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Catalog lookup link (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Category handler (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler/blacklist (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler/config (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler/data (view source) (protected)
Module:Category handler/shared (view source) (protected)
Module:Check for unknown parameters (view source) (protected)
Module:Check isxn (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Citation/CS1 (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/COinS (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/Date validation (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/Whitelist (view source) (protected)
Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css (view source) (protected)
Module:Convert (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Convert/data (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Convert/text (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Coordinates (view source) (protected)
Module:Coordinates/styles.css (view source) (protected)
Module:Delink (view source) (protected)
Module:Disambiguation/templates (view source) (protected)
Module:EditAtWikidata (view source) (protected)
Module:Find sources (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Find sources/config (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Find sources/links (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Find sources/templates/Find sources mainspace (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Footnotes (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Footnotes/anchor id list (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Footnotes/anchor id list/data (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Footnotes/whitelist (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Infobox (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Infobox/styles.css (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:InfoboxImage (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Math (view source) (protected)
Module:Message box (view source) (protected)
Module:Message box/ambox.css (view source) (protected)
Module:Message box/configuration (view source) (protected)
Module:Namespace detect/config (view source) (protected)
Module:Namespace detect/data (view source) (protected)
Module:Navbar (view source) (protected)
Module:Navbar/configuration (view source) (protected)
Module:Navbar/styles.css (view source) (protected)
Module:Navbox (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Navbox/configuration (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Navbox/styles.css (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Pagetype (view source) (protected)
Module:Pagetype/config (view source) (protected)
Module:Pagetype/disambiguation (view source) (protected)
Module:Pagetype/setindex (view source) (protected)
Module:Pagetype/softredirect (view source) (protected)
Module:SDcat (view source) (protected)
Module:Separated entries (view source) (protected)
Module:Side box (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Side box/styles.css (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Sidebar (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Sidebar/configuration (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Sidebar/styles.css (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:String (view source) (protected)
Module:TableTools (view source) (protected)
Module:Unsubst (view source) (protected)
Module:Webarchive (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Webarchive/data (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:WikidataIB (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:WikidataIB/nolinks (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:WikidataIB/titleformats (view source) (template editor protected)
Module:Wikitext Parsing (view source) (protected)
Module:Yesno (view source) (protected)

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