Palette rhomboid PAL-0167
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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0167

By Hendrickx, Stan

Gebelein (?)

, Archaeological context unknown. 1894 : Gift Edward E. Ayer to the Field Columbian Museum.

Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 30801.

Date : Naqada I–II (?)

General range of rhomboid palettes production.

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Complete, repaired

Preservation information :

One extremity broke off and was mended back in place.

Description

The rhomboid palette is rather iregular in shape, one end of the shorter axis is rounded, the other angular. The extremities are pointed. The angular side has a perforation.

 

Object use

The available documentation does not allow to note whether or not the palette has been used.

Field Museum of Natural History (ed.) : Online catalogue.
Field Museumof Natural History (ed.) : Online catalogue.

References

Not previously published.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0167, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0167. retrieved 12 February 2025.