Palette – rhomboid, decorated PAL-0213
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Cemetery 17, tomb 79, object 4.
1907–1908 : Archaeological Survey of Nubia excavation.Aswan, Nubian Museum, B29 / 39.
Date : early Naqada II (?)
Dated after the context and the objects from tomb 79 at Khor Bahan (Reisner 1910: 124).
Material : Greywacke
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
The palette probably has slight hollowing in the central area but the available documentation is inconclusive.
Comments
Seen on display in the Nubian museum. There are some uncertainties as to the precise inventory number of this object, indicated in Hendrickx & Eyckerman (2024) as "829".
References
1910
The archaeological survey of Nubia: report for 1907–1908. Vol. I: Archaeological report. Cairo
, 124.2024
Rhomboid is not just a shape in predynastic times, in: Tristan, Yann; Villaeys, Julie; Ryan, Ellen M. (eds), Egypt at its Origins 7: proceedings of the seventh International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Paris, 19th–23rd September 2022. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 323. Leuven
, 272, fig. 10.
