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Palette – rhomboid, fragment PAL-0227
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Settlement, Sq. CXXXVIII A, 40-60 cm.
1936 : Cairo University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Geography excavation.Collection unknown (Maadi inv. 8023).
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
The palette was probably reused at Maadi. Dated after the general range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Fragment
Preservation information :
Less than half of the original palette is preserved; none of the extremities of the long axis are preserved.
Description
Fragment of a palette with rounded ends of the shorter axis.
Object use
The palette has been used, causing on one face deep hollowing.
1988: pl. 83.4.
Dimensions (cm)
Length :
15.4
Additional information
References
Rizkana, I. ; Seeher, J.
1988
Maadi II. The lithic industries of the Predynastic settlement: excavations at the Predynastic site of Maadi and its cemeteries conducted by Mustapha Amer and Ibrahim Rizkana on behalf of the Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts of Cairo University 1930–1953. Archäologische Veröffentlichungen 65. Mainz am Rhein
, 103, pl. 83.4.