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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.
(ed.) : Online catalogue.
Dimensions (cm)
Width :
8.5
Length :
20.5
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
, 273–274, fig. 15.