Palette rhomboid PAL-0329
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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0329

By Hendrickx, Stan

Naqada

, Tomb 1440.

1894–1895 : William M.F. Petrie excavation.

Collection unknown

Date : Naqada I–II (?)

There is no information about the contents of tomb 1440. General range of rhomboid palettes production.

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Complete

Description

Rhomboid palette attributed by Petrie (1921: pl. LVIII) to type 91U. This type of palette is angular at the ends of the shorter axis and an horn emblem on top of one of the extremities. The other extremity is pointed.

Object use

There is no information about the use of this palette.

Petrie 1921: pl. LVIII.91U.

References

Petrie, W. M. F. ; Quibell, J. E.

1896

Naqada and Ballas, 1895. Egyptian Research Account 1. London 

, pl. XLIX.92.
Petrie, W. M. F.

1921

Corpus of prehistoric pottery and palettes. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 32, 23rd year, 1917. London

, pl. LVIII.91U..

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0329, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0329. retrieved 11 February 2025.

Related person

Petrie, William Matthew Flinders

Excavation director