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Palette – rhomboid, fragmentary PAL-0246
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Tomb H18.
1908–1909 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.Philadelphia, UPenn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, E.12460.
Date : Naqada IIC
Dated after the context and the objects from tomb H18 (Hendrickx 1989: II, 236).
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Almost complete
Preservation information :
A large part of one extremity is missing.
Description
The rhomboid palette is rounded / angular at the ends of the shorter axis; its remaining extremity is pointed.
Object use
The palette probably has slight hollowing in the central area but the available documentation is inconclusive.
1911: pl. XV.4 (detail).
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
11.9
Length :
26.5
Thickness :
1
