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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0160
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Tomb b215.
1899–1901 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.Collection unknown
Date : Naqada IIB
Tomb b215 was dated to before SD 56 (Randall-McIver & Mace 1902: 20) and to Naqada IIB (Hendrickx 1989: II, 300).
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Complete
Description
Randall-McIver & Mace (1902: 20) identified this palette as "type 96A" (as published in Petrie 1901: pl. XII.45—46); it should therefore be a rhomboid palette with angular projections at the ends of the shorter axis and pointed extremities.
Object use
There is no information about the use of this palette.