Palette rhomboid PAL-0159

Palette – rhomboid PAL-0159

By Hendrickx, Stan

el-Amra
, Tomb b143.
1900–1901 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.

Manchester, University Museum, 1370 & 1371.

Date : Naqada IIB

Tomb b143 was dated before SD 56 (Randall-McIver & Mace 1902: 20) and to Naqada IIB (Hendrickx 1989: II, 298).

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Almost complete

Preservation information :
Two joining fragments of the palette are preserved but not re-attached; one end broken off.

Description

The rhomboid palette is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis and has rounded extremities. The contour of the palette may have been partially reworked.

Object use

The palette is deeply hollowed by use in the central area. There is also picking.

Manchester Museum (ed.) : Online catalogue.

Manchester Museum (ed.) : Online catalogue.

Manchester Museum : Online catalogue.

Manchester Museum (ed.) : Online catalogue.

Randall-McIver & Mace 1902: pl. V.5.

Dimensions (cm)

Width :

6.7

Length :

30.5

Additional information

References

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

1902

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

, 20, pl. V.5.

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, 298.

Patenaude, J. ; Shaw, G. J.

2011

A catalogue of Egyptian cosmetic palettes in the Manchester University Museum collection. Manchester & London

, 7–8.