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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0171
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Archaeological context unknown. 1930–1937 : Italian Archaeological Mission excavation.Turin, Fondazione Museo delle Egizie, S. 17504.
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Complete
Preservation information :
Extremities slightly damaged.
Description
The rhomboid palette has angular projections at the ends of the shorter axis and pointed extremities.
Object use
The palette has been lightly used.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
11.2
Length :
47.8
Thickness :
2
Additional information
References
Hendrickx, S. ; Eyckerman, M.
2024
Rhomboid is not just a shape in predynastic times, in: Tristan, Yann; Villaeys, Julie; Ryan, Ellen M. (eds), Egypt at its Origins 7: proceedings of the seventh International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Paris, 19th–23rd September 2022. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 323. Leuven
, 268–269, fig. 3.