Palette rhomboid PAL-0160
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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0160

By Hendrickx, Stan

el-Amra

, 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.

Randall-McIver & Mace 1902 : pl. V.7.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0160, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0160. retrieved 11 February 2025.