Palette rhomboid PAL-0100
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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0100

By Hendrickx, Stan

Koshtamna

, Cemetery 89, tomb 647.

1908–1909 : Archeological Survey of Nubia excavation.

Collection unknown (Object 4).

Date : Naqada IIIA–B

Dated after the context and the objects from tomb 647.

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Complete

Description

The rhomboid palette is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis and has rounded extremities.

 

Object use

The palette has been used and according to Firth (1912: 192), a stain of green malachite is present.

Firth 1912 vol. II: pl. 45.c.2.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0100, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0100. Retrieved 12 May 2024.