Palette rhomboid PAL-0176
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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0176

By Hendrickx, Stan

Archaeological site unknown

Bolton, Museum and Archive Service, 1966.74.A.

Date : Naqada I–II (?)

General range of rhomboid palettes production.

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Fragment

Preservation information :

Almost half of the palette has broken off.

Description

The rhomboid palette is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis. One extremity is broken off and the other probably reworked.

 

Object use

The palette was heavily used and deeply hollowed in two areas of the central part of at least one face.

Bolton Museum and Archive Service (ed.) : Online catalogue.

Dimensions (cm)

Width :

7.9

Length :

22.4

Thickness :

1.8

Additional information

References

Not previously published.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0176, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0176. retrieved 21 September 2024.