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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0255
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Tomb H57.
1908–1909 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.Cairo, Egyptian Museum, JdE 41257.
Date : Naqada IIC
Dated to Naqada IIC after the context and the objects from tomb H57 (Hendrickx 1989: II, 239) but the palette might be older.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Complete
Description
The rhomboid palette has rather inconsipicuous angular projections at the ends of the shorter axis and had rounded extremities, one of which may have been reworked.
Object use
The palette has been used, causing at least on one face deep hollowing in the central area.
© Stan Hendrickx.
1911: pl. XXIII.1.
