Palette rhomboid, irregular PAL-0106

Palette – rhomboid, irregular PAL-0106

By Hendrickx, Stan

Hammamiya
, Tomb 1787.
1924 : British School of Archaeology in Egypt excavation.

London, Petrie Museum, UC 9518.

Date : Naqada I

Tomb 1787 was dated to SD 38 (Brunton & Caton-Thompson 1928: pl. XXXI). The tomb was not dated by Hendrickx (1989 vol. II: 215). A general date Naqada I can be proposed.

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Almost complete

Preservation information :
The palette is damaged on one side.

Description

The palette was published as a strange fish-like form but quite distinct from the usual fish (Brunton & Caton-Thompson 1928: 58). The palette is asymetric and can be related to rhomboid palettes with an oblique end at one extremity (compare for example with PAL-0102, PAL-0252). It is not impossible for the palette to have been reworked in parts in antiquity.

Object use

No obvious traces of use can be noted on the available documentation.

Petrie Museum (ed.) : Online catalogue.

Brunton & Caton-Thompson 1928: pl. LII.16.

Dimensions (cm)

Width :

4.4

Length :

9.6

Additional information

References

Brunton, G. ; Caton-Thompson, G.

1928

The Badarian civilisation and predynastic remains near Badari. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 46, 30th year, 1924. London

, 58, pl. LII.16.

Hendrickx, S.

1898

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, 215.