Palette – rhomboid, decorated PAL-0241
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Tomb H17.
1908–1909 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.Brussels, Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, E.2927.
Date : Naqada IC
Dated after the context and the objects from tomb H17 (cf. Eyckerman & Hendrickx 211: 380).
Material : Greywacke (Incised)
Preservation : Almost complete
Preservation information :
One extremity is chipped; small chip on one edge.
Description
The rhomboid palette is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis (one side with a slight projection) and has pointed extremities.
Decoration
The palette is on decorated one face with a series of engraved snakes that have wavy bodies and rounded heads. A single snake can still be seen on the other face. The decoration was partly obliterated by subsequent use.
Object use
The palette has been used, causing hollowing of the central area on both faces and obliterating some of the decoration.
Dimensions (cm)
8.5
37
1.5
Additional information
References
1911
Pre-dynastic cemetery at El Mahasna. Egypt Exploration Fund 31. London
, 10—11, 28, pl. I.5, XIII.3.2011
The Naqada I tombs H17 and H41 at el-Mahâsna: a visual reconstruction, in: Friedman, Renée; Fiske, Peter N. (eds), Egypt at its origins 3: proceedings of the Third International Conference “Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt”, London, 27th July – 1st August 2008. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 205. Leuven
, 386, fig. 12.
