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Palette – rhomboid, decorated fragments PAL-0301
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Tomb 7590.
1901 : Hearst Egyptian Expedition excavation.Berkeley, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, 6-4252.
Date : Naqada IIB
Dated after the context and the objects from tomb 7008 (cf. Friedman 1981: app. III).
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Fragments
Preservation information :
One fragment represents almost one half of hte palette.
Description
Two fragments of a rhomboid palette with rounded extremities.
Decoration
On the largest fragment, two signs are lightly incised on the same side. One is a rectangle divided by a cross into four rectangles; the other consists of two parallel lines that follow the longitudinal axis of the palette, crossed over by two other parallel lines.
Object use
There are no obvious traces of use.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
Comments
Found in situ next to the hand of the deceased. The palette must already have been broken and incomplete at the time of burial.
