Palette – rhomboid PAL-0476
By Hendrickx, Stan
Archaeological site unknown.
09.11.1894 : Bought by Hyppolyte Jean Gosse for the city of Geneva from Robert Forrer.Geneva, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, D 1051.
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 rounded extremities.
Object use
The palette has been used, causing on both faces shallow hollowing in the central area. On both faces are traces of pigment. There is also picking.
Dimensions (cm)
6.6
19
2.2
Additional information
Comments
This palette and several others bought on the same occasion were said by Robert Forrer to be from Akhmim, but he first published them a few years prior to his brief archaeological investigation of that sites.
References
1891
Römische und Byzantinische Seiden-Textilien aus dem Gräberfelde von Achmim-Panopolis. Strasbourg
, 21, fig. 2.1893
Die Frühchristlichen Altertümer aus dem Gräbfelde von Achmim-Panapolis. Strasbourg
, 17, fig. 3.1901
Über Steinzeit-Hockergräber zu Achmim, Naqada etc. in Ober-Ägypten und über europäische Parallelfunde. Achmim Studien 1. Strasbourg
, 32—33, no. 20.1983
Materialen zur Archäologie und Geschichte des Raumes von Achmim. Sonderschriften des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Abteilung Kairo, 11. Mainz am Rhein
, 57, fig. 15.2023
L'art de vendre une peau d'ours sans l'avoir tué: notes sur les travaux de Robert Forrer à Akhmim, in: Colin, Frédéric; Donnat, Sylvie; Laroche-Traunecker, Françoise; Régen, Isabelle (eds), Au-delà de Karnak: recueil d'études offert à Claude Traunecker. Cahiers "Égypte Nilotique et Méditerranéenne" 35. Montpellier, Paris
, 90–92, figs. 2–3, bottom right.
