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Palette – rhomboid, with horns emblem PAL-0452
By Hendrickx, Stan
Archaeological site unknown
Cairo, Egyptian Museum, CG 14236.
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Complete
Description
Rhomboid palette with a horn emblem on top of one of the extremities. The palette is angular at the ends of the shorter axis and has a pointed extremity.
© Stan Hendrickx.
© Stan Hendrickx.
1905: pl. 48, CG 14236.
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
14.2
Length :
63
Additional information
References
Quibell, J. E.
1905
Archaic objects. Catalogue Général des Antiquités Egyptiennes du Musée du Caire. Cairo
, 232, no. 14236.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
, 272–273, fig. 11.