Palette – rhomboid, irregular PAL-0106
By Hendrickx, Stan
, 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.
Dimensions (cm)
4.4
9.6
Additional information
References
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.16.1989
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, 215.2024
Rhomboid is not just a shape in predynastic times, in: Tristan, Yann; Villaeys, Julie; Ryan, Ellen M. (eds), Egypt at its Origins 7: proceedings of the seventh International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Paris, 19th–23rd September 2022. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 323. Leuven
, 291–293, fig. 42.
