Palette – rhomboid PAL-0318
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Tomb 226.
1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation.London, Petrie Museum, UC 4693.
Date : early Naqada II (?)
Dated after the context and the objects from tomb 226 (Hendrickx 1989: II, 237 & Notebook 72).
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Almost complete
Preservation information :
Tip of one extremity broken off; chips to the edges.
Description
The rhomboid palette is damaged at the ends of the shorter axis; its preserved extremity is rounded. A hole is drilled through the thickness of the object in an off-centre place, near one extremity; this feature is highly uncommon for rhomboid palettes.
Object use
The palette probably has slight hollowing in the central area but the available documentation is inconclusive.
Dimensions (cm)
6.2
18.8
Additional information
References
1894–1895
Unpublished manuscript excavation Notebook [no. 72: Naqada Great Cemetery (tombs N162–N275, N400–N402, N521–N556, N600–N601, N701–N757, N800, with gaps), Cemetery T (tombs T18–T43, with gaps), Cemetery G (tombs G1–G6, with gaps]. Petrie Museum, UCL
, p.28.1920
Prehistoric Egypt. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account, twenty-third year, 1917. London
, pl. XLIV.91E.