Palette (rhomboid) PAL-0558
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Palette – (rhomboid) PAL-0558

By Hendrickx, Stan

Archaeological site unknown.

1920 : Purchased at Luxor from Muhammad Mohassib.

New Haven, Yale University Art Gallery, 1920.26.35.

Date : Naqada I–II (?)

General range of rhomboid palettes production.

Material : Greywacke

Preservation : Almost complete

Preservation information :

One extremity broken off.

Description

The rhomboid palette is rounded at the ends of the shorter axis and has rounded extremities (one broken off).

Object use

The available documentation does not allow to note whether or not traces of use are visible on the palette.

Yale University Art Museum (ed.) : Online catalogue.

Dimensions (cm)

Width :

6.3

Length :

19

Thickness :

0.5

Additional information

References

Not previously published.

Cite this Page

Hendrickx, S. 2023. PAL-0558, Predynastic Online Database, www.ponda.org/object/PAL-0558. retrieved 21 September 2024.