Palette rhomboid, irregular PAL-0252

Palette – rhomboid, irregular PAL-0252

By Hendrickx, Stan

Mahasna
, Tomb H49.
1908–1909 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.

New Haven, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, ANT 006794 & 006796.

Date : Naqada IC

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

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Almost complete

Preservation information :
Broken in two parts with a small fragment missing.

Description

This rhomboid palette has angular projections at the ends of the shorter axis. One extremity is pointed and the other has an oblique end, resembling a handle.

Object use

The palette has been used, causing at least on one face hollowing in the central area.

Ayrton & Loat 1911: pl. XVIII.3.

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

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

Comments

The two fragments of the palette were discovered laying side by side in the grave (Ayrton & Loat 1911: 31). The Yale Peabody Museum online catalogue erroneously describes the large fragment ANT 006796 as a "diorite staff head" and attributes it to tomb H6 at Mahasna.

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.3.

Petrie, W. M. F.

1921

Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London

, pl. LVIII.90N.

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.