Palette – rhomboid PAL-0535
By Hendrickx, Stan
Archaeological site unknown.
From the R.G. Gayer-Anderson collection. Gift from Dir. A. Olby..Stockholm, Medelhavsmuseet, (rhomboid).
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Complete
Description
Rhomboid palette with a nesting ostrich 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 available documentation does not allow to note whether or not traces of use are visible on the palette.
Dimensions (cm)
8.5
20.5
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. 15.