Palette – zoomorphic, hartebeest PAL-0012
By Droux, Xavier
, Tomb a63.
1900–1901 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.Collection unknown
Date : Naqada IIA–B
General date of type pal_bov_2a, see Droux (2019).
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Unknown
Description
No description nor illustration of this object has been published by the excavator. The only known information comes from Petrie's Corpus (1921): he wrote a.63 next to palette 4D (PAL-0013), indicating that a similar palette was found at el-Amra.
We can therefore assume that this palette represents a standing hartebeest, although nothing more can be said until this object is identified in a museum or collection.
Additional information
pal_bov_2a
Comments
Palettes of shape-type pal_bov_2 are all carved in the shape of the hartebeest, although identification is sometimes tentative; sub-type 2a seems to pre-date sub-type 2b; see Droux (2019); this assumption is based on stylistic considerations since no palette of sub-type 2b comes from a known, precise archaeological context.
References
1921
Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London
, pl. LII, 3D (type only).
