Palette – rhomboid, fragment PAL-0229
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Settlement; exact provenance unknown.
1936 : Cairo University, Faculty of Arts, Department of Geography excavation.Collection unknown (Maadi inv. 8995).
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
The palette was 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.
Description
Fragment of a rhomboid palette, probably rounded at the ends of the shorter axis and with rounded extremities.
Object use
The palette has been used, causing slight (?) hollowing on one face of the original central area of the palette. The palette was later broken and the break slightly smoothed; at least this fragment was reused, which caused a deep hollowing in its centre on one face (cf. Rizkana & Seeher 1988: 103).
Dimensions (cm)
L: 17.5
Additional information
References
1984
New light on the relation of Maadi to the Upper Egyptian cultural sequence. Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Abteilung Kairo, 40
, fig. 5.3.1988
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. 84.2, pl. V.1.