Palette – rhomboid PAL-0373
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Cemetery 100, tomb 138.
1922–1925 : British School of Archaeology in Egypt excavation.London, Petrie Museum, UC 26516.
Date : early Naqada II (?)
Dated after the context and the objects from tomb 138 (Hendrickx 1989 vol. II: 221).
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Almost complete
Preservation information :
One extremity broken off.
Description
The rhomboid palette has angular projections at the ends of the shorter axis and one pointed extremity. The other extremity ends in an oblique line, resembling a handle.
Object use
The palette has been used, causing on both faces shallow hollowing in the central area. One face is blackened by fire.
Dimensions (cm)
8.4
27.2
Additional information
References
1928
The Badarian civilisation and predynastic remains near Badari. British School of Archaeology in Egypt & Egyptian Research Account 46, 30th year, 1924. London
, 49, pl. XXX, LII.15.2024
Rhomboid is not just a shape in predynastic times, in: Tristan, Yann; Villaeys, Julie; Ryan, Ellen M. (eds), Egypt at its Origins 7: proceedings of the seventh International Conference "Origin of the State. Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt", Paris, 19th–23rd September 2022. Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 323. Leuven
, 291–293, fig. 41.
