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Cosmetic palette

Roughly oval cosmetic palette, notched all round the edge on one side. With a green patch of malachite staining on the unnotched side. Petrie, type 61R.

Roughly oval cosmetic palette, notched all round the edge on one side. With a green patch of malachite staining on the unnotched side. Petrie, type 61R.

Object Cosmetic palette
Provenance Naqada, Egypt
Site Main cemetery
Period Predynastic
Material Greywacke
Subject Egyptology
Ref. No 1896.44:05
Copyrights Bolton Council