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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.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
1928: pl. LII.16.
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
4.4
Length :
9.6
