Palette – rhomboid, with horns emblem PAL-0264
By Hendrickx, Stan
, 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.
Dimensions (cm)
14.2
66.1
Additional information
References
1984
Predynastic and archaic Egypt in the Brooklyn Museum. Wilbour Monographs 9. Brooklyn
, 98—99 no. 62, 320—321 no. 252.2002
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. 9.2024
Rhomboid is not just a shape in predynastic times, in: Tristan, Yann; Villaeys, Julie; Ryan, Ellen M. (eds), Egypt at its Origins 7: proceedings of the seventh International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Paris, 19th–23rd September 2022. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 323. Leuven
, 272–273, fig. 12.