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Palette – rhomboid, decorated PAL-0127
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Cemetery 103, tomb 15.
1909–1910 : Archaeological Survey of Nubia excavation.Aswan, Nubian Museum, B36 (Object 1).
Date : early Naqada II (?)
Dated after the context and the objects from tomb 15 (Firth 1915: 98).
Material : Greywacke (incised)
Preservation : Complete, repaired
Description
The rhomboid palette is angular at the ends of the shorter axis and has pointed extremities.
Decoration
The palette is decorated on one side with an intricate, incised design. It may represent a man with a bird-like head. See Basch & Gorbea (1968. Estudios de arte rupestre nubio, 129—145) for comparison in rock-art at Khor Zurqan.
Object use
There is no information about the use of this palette.
1915: 98, pl. 28.e.2.
1915: 98, fig. 114.
Comments
The current localisation of this palette is uncertain.
