Palette – rhomboid PAL-0514
By Hendrickx, Stan
Archaeological site unknown.
Gift of Robert Miller and Marilyn Miller Deluca.Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, M.80.199.79.
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Complete
Description
Rhomboid palette with a vulture on top of one of the extremities. The palette is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis and has a rounded extremity.
Object use
The palette has been used, causing at least on one side shallow hollowing in the central area. There is also picking.
Dimensions (cm)
8
24.2
Additional information
References
1961
Chaos en beheersing: documenten uit het aeneolitisch Egypte. Documenta et Monumenta Orientis Antiqui 8. Leiden
, fig. 116.2024
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.