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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0276
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Tomb 586.
1913 : Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts expedition.Cambridge (MA), Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, 14-63-50/B473.
Date : Naqada IIB
Dated after the context and the objects from tomb 586 (Hendrickx 1989: II, 234).
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Complete
Description
The rhomboid palette is slightly angular at the ends of the shorter axis and has rounded extremities (one damaged).
Object use
The palette has been used, causing on both faces shallow hollowing in the central area.
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
7.9
Length :
22
Thickness :
0.9