Palette rhomboid, with horns emblem PAL-0121
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Palette – rhomboid, with horns emblem PAL-0121

By Hendrickx, Stan

Ballas

, North cemetery, tomb 309.

1900–1901 : Hearst Egyptian Expedition excavation.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, MFA 47.1638.

Date : Naqada IIC

Dated after the assemblage of objects found in tomb 309 that are today in Berkeley's Phoebe A. Hirst Museum of Anthropology.

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Complete

Description

Rhomboid palette with one of its extremities decorated with a horns emblem ending in bird heads. The palette is angular at the ends of the shorter axis and has a pointed extremity.

 

Object use

No obvious traces of use can be noted on the available documentation.

Museum of Fine Arts (ed.) : Online catalogue.
Museum of Fine Arts (ed.) : Online catalogue.

Dimensions (cm)

Width :

9

Length :

26.6

Additional information

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0121, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0121. retrieved 12 February 2025.