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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0115
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Tomb Q324.
1894–1895 : Egyptian Research Account excavation.Bolton, Museum and Archive Service, 1896.44.9.
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Complete
Description
The rhomboid palette is angular at the ends of the shorter axis and has pointed extremities.
Object use
The palette has been used, causing on shallow hollowing in the central area of at least one face. Slight trace of red staining remaining on one face.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
13
Length :
23.4
Thickness :
1.1
Additional information
Comments
Elise J. Baumgartel (1970, pl. XIV) had associated this palette with tomb N324 at Naqada, an error later corrected by Joan C. Payne (1990, 184). Tomb N324 at Naqada is not described in the preserved excavation manuscript notebooks, unlike tomb Q324, in which a rhomboid palette was indeed found, below the elbow of the skeleton. It is most likely this palette.
