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Palette – rhomboid PAL-0492
By Hendrickx, Stan
Archaeological site unknown.
1900 : Purchased from Mohammed Mohassib, purchased from Chauncey Murch.London, British Museum, EA 32502.
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Complete
Description
The rhomboid palette has angular projections at the ends of the shorter axis and rounded extremities (one damaged).
Object use
The palette has been used, causing on both faces deep hollowing in the central area.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
11.1
Length :
52
Thickness :
1.99
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
, 268–269, fig. 4.