@ -798,9 +798,9 @@ battlefield.[^174] Decapitation of prisoners of war certainly was a
later practice in Egypt, as attested in iconography such as the Narmer
palette from the very beginning of the First Dynasty (Figure 9).
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![Detail of decapitated corpses on the obverse face of the Narmer palette (Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 32169). Drawing by Henriette Hafsaas.](../static/images/hafsaas/Fig9.jpg "Detail of decapitated corpses on the obverse face of the Narmer palette (Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 32169). Drawing by Henriette Hafsaas.")
**~~Figure 9: ~~**
**~~Figure 9: Detail of decapitated corpses on the obverse face of the Narmer palette (Egyptian Museum, Cairo JE 32169). Drawing by Henriette Hafsaas.~~**
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head could also have been removed after some time of exposure on the