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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0113
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Cemetery 3800.
1924 : British School of Archeology in Egypt excavation.Collection unknown
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Complete
Description
According to Brunton & Caton-Thompson (1928: 51), this palette belongs to type 91B of Petrie's 1921 Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. It ought therefore to be a rhomboid palette with rounded ends of the shorter axis and pointed extremities.
Object use
There is no information about the use of this palette.
Comments
According to the distribution list, the palette should be in Newcastle, Dunedin, Worthing or Bexhill (Brunton & Caton-Thompson 1928: 120). No object corresponding to this palette has been identified in these locations.
