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Palette – rhomboid, decorated PAL-0053
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Tomb 1054.
1905–1906 : Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft excavation.Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, ÄM 19023.
Date : Naqada II
Dated after the context and the objects from tomb 1054 (Scharff 1926: 154–155).
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Complete
Description
The rhomboid palette is rather irregular in shape. It is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis. It has a perforation near one of the extremities. The extremity above the perforation is almost straight and may have been reworked after breakage. The other extremitiy is pointed.
Object use
No obvious traces of use can be noted on the available documentation.
1926: Tf. 32.317.
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
11.5
Length :
18.7
