Palette rhomboid, with horns emblem PAL-0334
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Palette – rhomboid, with horns emblem PAL-0334

By Hendrickx, Stan

Naqada

, Tomb 1497.

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

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895.854.

Date : Naqada IC

Dated after the context and the objects from tomb 1497 (Hendrickx 1989 vol. II: 357).

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Complete

Description

Rhomboid palette with an horn emblem on top of one of the extremities. The palette is angular at the ends of the shorter axis and has a pointed extremity.

Object use

The palette has been used, causing on both faces hollowing in the central area.

Ashmolean Museum (ed.) : Online catalogue.

Dimensions (cm)

Width :

7.3

Length :

30.5

Additional information

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.
Baumgartel, E. J.

1970

Petrie's Naqada excavation: a supplement. London

, pl. XLVI.
Payne, J. C.

1993

Catalogue of the predynastic Egyptian collection in the Ashmolean Museum. Oxford

, 227, no. 1867.

Digital references

Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

(ed.).

Online catalogue

, retrieved 03.04.2023.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0334, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0334. retrieved 11 February 2025.

Related person

Petrie, William Matthew Flinders

Excavation director