Palette – rhomboid PAL-0460
By Hendrickx, Stan
Archaeological site unknown
Cambridge, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Z 36229.
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Complete
Description
Rhomboid palette with a bird (an ostrich) above two triangular extensions on top of one of the extremities. The palette is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis and has a rounded extremity. The bird has an eye marked out on each face. The eye on one face has white inside, possibly ground shell.
Object use
The palette probably has slight hollowing in the central area but the available documentation is inconclusive.
Dimensions (cm)
8.5
30.7
1.1
Additional information
References
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
, 273–274, fig. 16.