Palette – rhomboid?, decorated PAL-0201
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Archaeological context unknown. 1898–1899 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1896-1908 E.928.
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke (Incised)
Preservation : Almost complete
Preservation information :
Reworked, probably after damage; the original extremities are lost.
Description
If this palette was indeed of regular rhomboid shape originally, it seems to have been reworked on at least three sides, probably after having been damaged in antiquity. Only one long side shows the angular transition characteristic of the rhomboid palettes.
Decoration
The palette is decorated on both sides with engraved hunting scenes in which dogs, barbary sheep and gazelles can be recognised. A detailed study of the decoration is yet to be undertaken.
Object use
The palette has been used, also after the decoration was incised, so as to erase all or parts of some of the motifs.
Dimensions (cm)
10.9
23
Additional information
References
1901
Diospolis Parva: the cemeteries of Abadiyeh and Hu. Egypt Exploration Fund Memoir 20. London
, pl. XX.20,22.1905
Primitive art in Egypt; translated from the revised and augmented original edition. London
, 84, fig. 62; 140, fig. 111.1961
Chaos en beheersing: documenten uit het aeneolitisch Egypte. Documenta et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui 8. Leiden
, afb. 67–68.1993
Catalogue of the predynastic Egyptian collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford
, 227, no. 1869.