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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0485
By Hendrickx, Stan
, Archaeological context unknown. 1901 : Purchased.Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, 1901/9.55.
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Complete
Description
The palette (or rather amulet) is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis and has pointed extremities. There is a perforation close to one of the extremities.
Object use
There are no traces of use.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
2.5
Length :
4.3
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
, 270–271, fig. 5.