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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0060
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Cemetery D.
1899–1900 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation. Before 1999 : St Helens Museum and Art Gallery.Liverpool, World Museum, 1999.21.164.3.
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Intact
Description
The rhomboid palette is angular at the ends of the shorter axis and has rounded extremities.
Object use
No obvious traces of use can be noted on the available documentation but there is a limited amount of pitting.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
7.9
Length :
27.2
Thickness :
1.35
Additional information
Comments
Cemetery D is a Middle Kingdom - New Kingdom cemetery. Predynastic finds are not mentioned in the excavation report (Randall McIver & Mace 1902: 63–66).
References
Not previously published.
