Palette rhomboid PAL-0110
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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0110

By Hendrickx, Stan

Badari

, Tomb 3740.

1924 : Britisch School of Archaeology in Egypt excavation.

London, Petrie Museum, UC 9537.

Date : Naqada IIA

Tomb 3740 was dated to SD 38–44 (Brunton & Caton-Thompson 1928: pl. XXXI) and to Naqada IIA (Hendrickx 1989: II, 200).

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Complete

Description

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

 

Object use

The available documentation does not allow to note whether or not traces of use are visible on the palette.

Petrie Museum (ed.) : Online catalogue.

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

, pl. XXXII.
Hendrickx, S.

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, 200.

Digital references

Petrie Museum

(ed.).

Online catalogue

, retrieved 12.11.2004.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0110, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0110. retrieved 10 January 2025.

Related person

Brunton, Guy

Excavation director

Caton-Thompson, Gertrude

Excavator