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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0128
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Cemetery 102, tomb 104.
1909–1910 : Archaeological Survey of Nubia excavation.Aswan, Nubian Museum (Object 8).
Date : early Naqada II (?)
Dated after the context and the objects from tomb 104 (Firth 1915: 62).
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Fragmentary
Preservation information :
Most of one half of the palette is missing.
Description
The rhomboid palette is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis and its remaining extremity is pointed. The opposite extremity was reworked in antiquity after breakage.
Object use
The palette was probably heavily used, as suggested by the reworked edge.
1915: pl. 28.e.1.
Comments
The current localisation of this palette is uncertain.
