Palette – rhomboid PAL-0423
By Hendrickx, Stan
Archaeological site unknown.
1905 : Mission d'Egypte 1905—1906, purchased at Luxor from Abd el Megid.Brussels, Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, E.2182.
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Almost complete
Preservation information :
One bull head broken off.
Description
The rhomboid palette is angular at the ends of the shorter axis and has a pointed extremity. On top of the other extremity is a bulls head with inlayed eye, a second head is broken off.
Object use
The palette has been used, causing on both faces shallow hollowing in the central area.
Dimensions (cm)
10.6
40.4
Additional information
References
2002
Bovines in Egyptian predynastic and early dynastic iconography, in: Hassan, Fekri A. (ed.), Drought, food and culture: ecological change and food security in Africa's later prehistory. New York & London
, 193, fig. 16.10.2024
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
, 273, fig. 13.