Palette rhomboid PAL-0104
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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0104

By Hendrickx, Stan

Badari

, Cemetery 1700.

1924 : British School of Archaeology in Egypt excavation.

Collection unknown

Date : Naqada I–II (?)

General range of rhomboid palettes production.

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Almost complete

Description

The rhomboid palette has a rounded projections at one end of the shorter axis. The other end is probably damaged. The extremities are pointed.

 

Object use

Depression ground in the centre of at least one face.

Brunton & Caton-Thompson 1928: pl. LII.5.

Comments

According to the distribution list, the palette should be in Lichfield, Reading, or Boston (Brunton & Caton-Thompson 1928: 117). It has not yet been indentified in these collections.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0104, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0104. Retrieved 11 May 2024.