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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0308
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Cemetery N, tomb 601 (?).
1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation, Egyptian Research Account distribution.Philadelphia, UPenn Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, E.1217.
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Fragment
Preservation information :
Most of one side is lost; tip of opposite extremity broken off.
Description
Large fragment of a rhomboid palettewith angular at the ends of the shorter axis. Both extremities are broken off.
Object use
The palette was heavily used, causing on both faces deep hollowing.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
8.5
Length :
20
Thickness :
2
Additional information
Comments
The attribution to tomb N601 at Naqada is uncertain. A 'shapeless' palette at the Petrie Museum is likely the one indicated on the tomb top-plan (Petrie, excavation Notebook 72, p. 24). A palette was also found in tomb L601 at Ballas, but it may have been a rectangular palette (Quibell, Notebook 145, p. 53).
References
Not previously published.
