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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0424
By Hendrickx, Stan
Archaeological site unknown.
1905 : Mission d'Égypte 1905—1906, purchased in Luxor.Brussels, Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, E.2186.
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Complete
Description
The rhomboid palette is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis and has pointed extremities.
Object use
The palette has been used, causing on both faces shallow hollowing in the central area. There is also pitting.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
6.2
Length :
25
Additional information
References
Hendrickx, S. ; Eyckerman, M.
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
, 267, 269, fig. 1.