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Palette – rhomboid, decorated PAL-0208
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Cemetery 17, tomb 50, object 41.
1907–1908 : Archaeological Survey of Nubia excavation.Aswan, Nubian Museum, B28 / 92.
Date : early Naqada II (?)
Dated after the context and the objects from tomb 50 at Khor Bahan (Reisner 1910: 120).
Material : Greywacke (Incised)
Preservation : Complete
Description
The rhomboid palette is angular at the ends of the shorter axis and has pointed extremities.
Decoration
The extremity of one face is decorated with two bands worked in low relief, oblique to the axis of the palette.
Object use
There are no obvious traces of use.
1910: pl. 63a6.
1910: 118, fig. 71.
© Xavier Droux.
Comments
On display in the Nubia Museum; the darker oblique band might be due to lilghting conditions or conservation (adhesive?).
