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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0046
By Hendrickx, Stan
, 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.
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
12.5
Length :
61.4