Palette – rhomboid, decorated PAL-0430
By Hendrickx, Stan
Archaeological site unknown.
1934 : Purchased Mallon, Paris.Brussels, Musées royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, E.6834.
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Almost complete
Preservation information :
One extremity broken off.
Description
The rhomboid palette is angular at the ends of the shorter axis and has rounded extremities (one broken off).
Decoration
Engraved decoration of a hunting scene on both faces.
Object use
The palette has been used, causing on both faces shallow hollowing in the central area.
Dimensions (cm)
10
33
Additional information
References
1935
Deux palettes prédynastiques. Bulletin des Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire 7
.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
, 271–272, fig. 8.