Palette rhomboid PAL-0338
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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0338

By Hendrickx, Stan

Naqada

, Tomb 1577.

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

London, Petrie Museum, UC 4456.

Date : Naqada I (?)

Dated after the context and the objects from tomb 1577 (Hendrickx 1989 vol. II: 359).

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Complete

Description

The small rhomboid palette (or rather amulet) is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis and has rounded extremities. There is a perforation near to one of the extremities.

Object use

Some picking.

Petrie Museum (ed.) : Online catalogue.
Petrie 1920: pl. XLIV.92R.

Dimensions (cm)

Width :

2.9

Length :

4.9

Additional information

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0338, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0338. retrieved 11 February 2025.