Palette rhomboid, decorated PAL-0336
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Palette – rhomboid, decorated PAL-0336

By Hendrickx, Stan

Naqada

, Tomb 1515.

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

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford, AN 1895.825.

Date : Naqada IIA

Dated after the context and the objects from tomb 1515 (Hendrickx 1989 vol. II: 358).

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Almost complete

Description

The rhomboid palette has rounded projections at the ends of the shorter axis and pointed extremities (one damaged).

Decoration

Incised bovid on one face.

Object use

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

Ashmolean Museum (ed.) : Online catalogue.
Ashmolean Museum (ed.) : Online catalogue.

Dimensions (cm)

Width :

9.7

Length :

34.3

Additional information

References

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

1896

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

, pl. LI.15a.
Baumgartel, E. J.

1970

Petrie's Naqada excavation: a supplement. London

, XLVII.
Payne, J. C.

1993

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

, 227, no. 1868.

Digital references

Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

(ed.).

Online catalogue

, retrieved 09.04.2023.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0336, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0336. retrieved 11 February 2025.

Related person

Petrie, William Matthew Flinders

Excavation director