Michael Rice in his Chapter 3 page 107-108 comments on the first
register of the reverse side: "Reverse: inverted saucepan-like
object as the red crown of Lower Egypt. Surmounted by the Hathor
heads and the royal name in its enclosure, the king walks
forward, wearing the red crown of the northern kingdom and
carrying his war mace. Behind him the same boyish sandal-bearer,
carries a bolas (hunting device) for large game, or a rope for
hobbling animals, as the hieroglyph ’tt’. The King and his two
attendants have symbols or devices, the ancestors of
hieroglyphs. The sandal-bearer is now identified by a throwing
stick and a six-petalled rosette. His colleague is shaven
headed, but could also be a child, but wears a full and heavy
wig. He is marked by another version of the object he carries in
his hand, suspended above an inverted closed semi-circle." Rice
continues in Chapter 6 page 271 about the dualism of Egypt, "The
duality of the ruler is based on the primitive belief that the
placenta is the brother of the