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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0174
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Archaeological context unknown.Collection unknown, (private collection?).
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Complete
Description
The rhomboid palette is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis and has a pointed extremity. The other extremity is shaped into two birds head facing opposite directions, but this appears to likely be modern reworking of an originally pointed extremity.
Object use
There are no obvious traces of use, but there is some pitting.
1961: afb. 75.
Comments
This palette is only known from the documentation of Louis Keimer and the publication of Asselberghs.
