Palette rhomboid PAL-0046
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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0046

By Hendrickx, Stan

Abadiya

, Tomb B107.

1898–1899 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1896-1908 E.3095.

Date : Naqada I

Attributed by Petrie to SD 33? (= Naqada I; Petrie 1901: 33). The description of the tomb contents (Petrie 1898–1899: part III, 4–5) hardly allows to confirm this.

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Almost complete

Preservation information :

The tip of one of the extremities is broken off.

Description

The rhomboid palette is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis and has pointed extremities.

 

Object use

The available documentation does not allow to note whether or not traces of use are visible on the palette.

Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford (ed.) : Online catalogue.
Petrie 1901: pl. XII.44.
Petrie 1898–1899: part III, 4.

Dimensions (cm)

Width :

12.5

Length :

61.4

Additional information

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0046, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0046. Retrieved 11 May 2024.