Palette rhomboid, with horns emblem PAL-0114

Palette – rhomboid, with horns emblem PAL-0114

By Hendrickx, Stan

Badari
, Tomb 3829.
1924 : British School of Archaeology in Egypt excavation.

Newcastle upon Tyne, Great North Museum: Hancock, AREGYPT 238.

Date : Naqada II (?)

Tomb 3829 was dated to SD 41–48 (Brunton & Caton-Thompson 1928: pl. XXXIII). The tomb was not dated by Hendrickx (1989: II, 204). A Naqada II date can be proposed.

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Almost complete

Preservation information :
The tip of one horn is broken off.

Description

Rhomboid palette with a horns emblem ending in bird heads on top of one of the extremities. The palette is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis and has a rounded extremity.

Object use

There is no information about the use of this palette.

Brunton & Caton-Thompson 1928: pl. XXXIV.3.

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. XXXIII, XXXIV.3.

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, 204.

Hendrickx, S.

2002

Bovines in Egyptian predynastic and early dynastic iconography, in: Hassan, Fekri A. (ed.), Drought, food and culture: ecological change and food security in Africa's later prehistory. New York & London

, 133, app. K, no. 5.