Palette rhomboid, with horns emblem PAL-0150
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Palette – rhomboid, with horns emblem PAL-0150

By Hendrickx, Stan

el-Amra

, Tomb a101.

1900–1901 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.

Collection unknown

Date : Naqada I

The find context and the contents of tomb a101 have not been published. Petrie (1921: pl. LVIII.91U) dates the palette to SD 34, which corresponds to Naqada I.

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Complete

Description

Rhomboid palette attributed by Petrie (1921: pl. LVIII) to type 91U. This type of palette has a horn emblem on top of one of the extremities. It is angular at the ends of the shorter axis and has a pointed extremity.

 

Object use

There is no information about the use of this palette.

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References

Petrie, W. M. F.

1921

Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London

, pl. LVIII.91U.
Hendrickx, S.

2002

Bovines in Egyptian predynastic and early dynastic iconography, in: Hassan, Fekri A. (ed.), Drought, food and culture: ecological change and food security in Africa's later prehistory. New York & London

, 133, app. K, no. 4.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0150, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0150. retrieved 11 March 2025.

Related person

Randall-MacIver, David

Excavation director

Wilkin, Anthony

Excavator