Palette – rhomboid, decorated PAL-0541
By Hendrickx, Stan
Archaeological site unknown
Stockholm, Medelhavsmuseet, MM 16000.
Date : Naqada I–II (?)
General range of rhomboid palettes production.
Material : Greywacke
Preservation : Almost complete
Preservation information :
Extremities damaged.
Description
The rhomboid palette has rounded projections (damaged) at the ends of the shorter axis and pointed extremities (one damaged).
Decoration
Engraved decoration. A man hunting a hippopotamus from a boat. A dog attacking a gazelle from behind. A hippopotamus.
Object use
The palette has been used on the decorated side but before the decoration was made, causing hollowing in the central area.
Dimensions (cm)
10
33
2
Additional information
References
1953
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, no. 69.1989
Das Nilpferd in der Vorstellungswelt der alten Ägypter. Teil I, Katalog. Europäische Hochschulschriften VIII, 22. Frankfurt am Main
, Dok.21.1998
The mammals of ancient Egypt. Natural History of Egypt 4. Warminster
, 145.2009
The gazelle in ancient Egyptian art: image and meaning. Uppsala studies in Egyptology 6. Uppsala
, 42—43.2002
History or ideology? New reflections on the Narmer Palette and the nature of foreign relations in Pre- and Early Dynastic Egypt, in: van den Brink, Edwin: C. M.; Levy, Thomas Evan (eds), Egypt and the Levant: interrelations from the 4th through the early 3rd millennium BCE. New Approaches to Anthropological Archaeology. London & New York
, 506, fig. 31.9.