Palette rhomboid, with horns emblem PAL-0264
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Palette – rhomboid, with horns emblem PAL-0264

By Hendrickx, Stan

Mamariya

, Tomb 35.

1907 : Brooklyn Museum excavation.

New York, Brooklyn Museum, 07.447.600.

Date : Naqada I–II

Information about Tomb 35 does not allow precise dating (cf. Needler 1984: 91). Dated after the general range of rhomboid palettes production.

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Complete

Description

Rhomboid palette with a horns emblem ending in bird heads at one of the extremities. The palette has angular projections at the ends of the shorter axis and has a rounded extremity.

Object use

The palette was probably lightly used but the available documentation is inconclusive.

Brooklyn Museum (ed.) : Online catalogue.
Needler 1984: 99, fig. 13.62.
© Stan Hendrickx.

Dimensions (cm)

Width :

14.2

Length :

66.1

Additional information

References

Needler, W.

1984

Predynastic and archaic Egypt in the Brooklyn Museum. Wilbour Monographs 9. Brooklyn 

, 98—99 no. 62, 320—321 no. 252.
Hendrickx, S.

2002

Bovines in Egyptian predynastic and early dynastic iconography, in: Hassan, Fekri A. (ed.), Drought, food and culture: ecological change and food security in Africa's later prehistory. New York & London

, 313, app. K., no. 9.

Digital references

Brooklyn Museum

(ed.).

Online catalogue

, retrieved 03.08.2015.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0264, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0264. retrieved 21 September 2024.

Related person

de Morgan, Henri

Excavator