Palette rhomboid, with horns emblem PAL-0158

Palette – rhomboid, with horns emblem PAL-0158

By Hendrickx, Stan

el-Amra
, Tomb b78.
1900–1901 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.

Oxford, Pitt Rivers Museum, 1901.29.08.

Date : Naqada IIB

Tomb b78 was dated to before SD 56 (Randall-McIver & Mace 1902: 19) and to Naqada IIB (Hendrickx 1989: II, 294).

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Almost complete

Preservation information :
The tip of one of the horn is broken off.

Description

Rhomboid palette with a horns emblem ending in bird heads on top of one of the extremities; the opposite end is rounded. The palette is angular at the ends of the shorter axis.

Object use

The palette probably has slight hollowing in the central area but the available documentation is inconclusive.

Dimensions (cm)

Width :

9.4

Length :

Additional information

References

Randall-MacIver, D. ; Mace, A. C.

1902

El Amrah and Abydos, 1899–1901. Egypt Exploration Fund, special extra publication, 23. London

, 19.

Hendrickx, S.

1989

De grafvelden der Naqada-cultuur in Zuid-Egypte, met bijzondere aandacht voor het Naqada III grafveld te Elkab. Interne chronologie en sociale differentiatie. PHD thesis, Leuven

, II, 294.