Palette – rhomboid, with horns emblem and decorated PAL-0041
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Tomb B101.
1898–1899 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JE 34220.
Date : Naqada IC–IIA
Dated after the context and the assemblage found in tomb B101.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Almost complete
Decoration preservation : Very good
Preservation information :
The horns emblem was already partly broken off when the palette was excavated; it has since been further damaged.
Description
The rhomboid palette is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis. There was a horns emblem at one of the extremities, which is now largely broken off. The opposite extremity is pointed.
Decoration
Below the horns emblem, the palette is decorated on one side with a visually related horns symbol in low relief, very carefully executed and therefore considered the recto of the palette. On the verso, at about the same location as this horns symbol, is a series of four engraved, undulating lines. These are not executed as well as the horns symbol, and the lower line is not finished.
Object use
No obvious traces of use can be observed, but the lower part of the recto shows extensive pitting. The available documentation does not allow to describe the other side.
Dimensions (cm)
25.5
Additional information
References
1901
Diospolis Parva: the cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu. Egypt Exploration Fund Memoir 20. London
, pl. V.6 (erroneously attributed to tomb B102).1905
Primitive art in Egypt; translated from the revised and augmented original edition. London
, 91, fig. 61.
