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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0095
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Tomb 1424.
1930 : Egypt Exploration Society excavation. Gift Robert Mond to the Royal Ontario Museum.Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, 935.20.139.
Date : Naqada IC
Tomb 1424 was not dated by Mond & Myers (1937). Dated to Naqada IC (Hendrickx 1989: II, 387).
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Almost complete
Preservation information :
One extremity is missing.
Description
The rhomboid palette is angular at the ends of the shorter axis and has rounded extremities.
Object use
The palette is deeply hollowed by use.
Courtesy of ROM (Royal Ontario Museum), Toronto, Canada. © ROM.
1937: pl. XIV.2.
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
9.6
Length :
38
Additional information
Acknowledgements
We thank the Royal Ontario Museum for permission to include images of this artefact.
