cosmetic-palette
- Museum number
- EA37099
- Description
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Palette of mudstone (greywacke) carved in the shape of a fish, with tail defined by two narrow carved notches. Pierced at top for suspension. Depression in the centre of one face from use.
- Dimensions
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Length: 24 centimetres
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Thickness: 1.29 centimetres
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Width: 14 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Palette type 46Rin Petrie’s Corpus of Prehistoric Pottery and Palettes (1921).
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- fair - head chipped
- Acquisition date
- 1924
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA37099
- Registration number
- 1924,1217.3