Palette rhomboid PAL-0251
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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0251

By Hendrickx, Stan

Mahasna

, Tomb H49.

1908–1909 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.

New Haven, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, YPM ANT 006793.

Date : Naqada IC

Dated after the context and the objects from tomb H49 (Hendrickx 1989: II, 239).

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Intact

Description

The rhomboid palette is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis and has pointed extremities.

Object use

The palette has been used, with a clearly defined depression purposefully ground in the centre of one face. There is no information about the other face.

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (ed.) : Online catalogue.
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (ed.) : Online catalogue.

References

Ayrton, E. R. ; Loat, W. L. S.

1911

Pre-dynastic cemetery at El Mahasna. Egypt Exploration Fund 31. London

, 17, 31, pl. V.21, pl. XVIII.4.
Hendrickx, S.

1989

De grafvelden der Naqada-cultuur in Zuid-Egypte, met bijzondere aandacht voor het Naqada III grafveld te Elkab. Interne chronologie en sociale differentiatie. PHD thesis, Leuven

, II, 239.

Digital references

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

(ed.).

Online catalogue

, retrieved 27.03.2021.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0251, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0251. retrieved 11 February 2025.

Related person

Ayrton, Edward Russell

Excavation director

Loat, William Leonard Stevenson

Excavation director