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Palette – rhomboid, with bird figurine PAL-0269
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Tomb 2631.
1930 : British Museum Expedition to Middle Egypt excavation.Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, E.16.1930.
Date : Naqada IIA
Dated after the context and the objects from tomb 2631 (Hendrickx 1989 II, 163).
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Almost complete
Preservation information :
The head of the bird is broken off.
Description
Rhomboid palette with the figure of a bird, likely an ostrich, carved on top of one of the extremities. The palette is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis and has a rounded extremity.
Object use
The palette probably has slight hollowing in the central area but the available documentation is inconclusive.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
1948: pl. XV.29.
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
4.3
Length :
14.8
