Palette – rhomboid, miniature PAL-0243
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Tomb H17.
1908–1909 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.Brussels, Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, E.2929.
Date : Naqada IC
Dated after the context and the objects from tomb H17 (cf. Eyckerman & Hendrickx 211: 380).
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Complete
Description
The rhomboid palette is pointed at one end of the shorter axis and rounded at the other. It has pointed extremities. A small hole is drilled next to one of the extremities; because of its small size, it can be suggested that this artefact is a miniature model of an average-size palette, perhaps used as a pendant or amulette.
Object use
No traces of use can be seen.
Dimensions (cm)
2.1
5.1
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
, 387, fig. 15.2024
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
, 270–271, fig. 6a–b.
