Palette rhomboid PAL-0095
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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0095

By Hendrickx, Stan

Armant

, 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. 

Royal Ontaria Museum (ed.) : Online catalogue.
Mond & Myers 1937: pl. XIV.2.

Dimensions (cm)

Width :

9.6

Length :

38

Additional information

References

Mond, R. L. ; Myers, O. H.

1937

Cemeteries of Armant I. Text. Egypt Exploration Society, Memoir 42. London 

, 13, 27.
Mond, R. L. ; Myers, O. H.

1937

Cemeteries of Armant I. Plates. Egypt Exploration Society, Memoir 42. London 

, pl. XIV.2, XV.3.
Hendrickx, S.

1989

De grafvelden der Naqada-cultuur in Zuid-Egypte, met bijzondere aandacht voor het Naqada III grafveld te Elkab. Interne chronologie en sociale differentiatie. PHD thesis, Leuven

, II, 387.

Digital references

Royal Ontario Museum

(ed.).

Online catalogue

, retrieved 13.07.2019.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0095, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0095. retrieved 12 February 2025.

Related person

Mond, Robert Ludwig

Excavation patron

Myers, Oliver Humphrys

Excavaton director