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Palette – rhomboid, fragment PAL-0185
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Fort Cemetery / HK27 Tomb 3.
1934–1935 : Metropolitan Museum excavation.New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MMA 35.7.57.
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
The find context and the contents of the tomb have not been published. Rhomboid palettes can generally be dated to Naqada I–II.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Fragment
Preservation information :
The palette is heavily damaged with both extremities broken off.
Description
Rhomboid palette with rounded projections at the ends of the shorter axis. The palette most likely continued to be used after it was broken and was reworked.
Object use
The palette has been heavily used, causing deep hollowing on both faces. On one face, the depression contains stains of green pigment; this depression being located in the centre of the fragment rather than that of the original palette, it was most likely created after the palette was broken. There is also some picking.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
References
Not previously published.
