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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0178
By Hendrickx, Stan
, North spur, D 1'6.
1925 : British School of Archaeology in Egypt excavation.Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1925.576X.
Date : Naqada IIC–D
Dated after the level of the settlement at Hammamiya in which the palette fragment was found (cf. Brunton & Caton-Thompson 1928: 77–78)
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Fragment
Description
Rhomboid palette attributed by Payne (1993) to type 92T of Petrie's Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes (1920: pl. XLIV). This type of small palette is angular at the ends of the shorter axis and has rounded extremities.
Object use
Slightly hollowowed by use on both faces.
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
5.2
Length :
8.8
