Palette rhomboid, fragmentary PAL-0140
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Palette – rhomboid, fragmentary PAL-0140

By Hendrickx, Stan

el-Amra

, Archaeological context unknown. 1896 : Jacques de Morgan excavation.

St-Germain-en-Laye, Musée d'Archéologie nationale, 77.705H.07.

Date : Naqada I–II (?)

General range of rhomboid palettes production.

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Fragment

Preservation information :

One extremity is broken off.

Description

The rhomboid palette is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis and its remaining extremity is pointed.

 

Object use

The palette has slight hollowing and pitting in the central area of at least one face.

Musée des Antiquités Nationales (ed.) 1982: 115.

Dimensions (cm)

Width :

6.3

Length :

15.5

Additional information

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0140, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0140. retrieved 21 September 2024.