Palette rhomboid, with horns emblem PAL-0399

Palette – rhomboid, with horns emblem PAL-0399

By Hendrickx, Stan

Archaeological site unknown.
1891 : Acquisition unknown.

Berlin, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung, ÄM 10969.

Date : Naqada I–II (?)

General range of rhomboid palettes production.

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Almost complete

Preservation information :
Extremity broken off.

Description

Rhomboid palette with a horn emblem ending in bird heads on top of one of the extremities. The other extremity is broken off. The palette is angular at the ends of the shorter axis.

Object use

The palette has been used, causing on both faces hollowing in the central area. There is also some pitting.

Scharff 1929: Tf. 30.215.

Kaiser 1967: no. 129.

Dimensions (cm)

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Additional information

References

Scharff, A.

1929

Die Altertümer der Vor- und Frühzeit Ägyptens II: Bestattungen, Kunst, Amulette und Schmuck. Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Mitteilungen aus der Ägyptischen Sammlung V. Berlin

, 122, no. 215.

Kaiser, W.

(ed.).

1967

Ägyptisches Museum Berlin: [im] Östlicher Stülerbau am Schloss Charlottenburg. Berlin

, no. 129.