Palette rhomboid PAL-0257
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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0257

By Hendrickx, Stan

Mahasna

, Tomb H90.

1908–1909 : Egypt Exploration Fund excavation.

Edinburgh, National Museums of Scotland, A.1909.525.1.

Date : Naqada IC

Dated after the context and the objects from tomb H90 (Hendrickx 1989: II, 242).

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Complete

Description

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

Object use

The palette has been used, causing on both faces deep hollowing in the central area.

National Museums of Scotland (ed.) : Online catalogue.
National Museums of Scotland (ed.) : Online catalogue.

References

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

1911

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

, 4, 10.
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, 242.

Digital references

National Museums of Scotland

(ed.).

Online catalogue

, retrieved 22.06.2020.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0257, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0257. retrieved 11 February 2025.

Related person

Ayrton, Edward Russell

Excavation director

Loat, William Leonard Stevenson

Excavation director