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Palette and Rubber

Rectangular palette with bevelled sides and a rectangular depression on the top. Rubbing stone with rounded top and flat base. Used to grind pigments for ink or cosmetics.

Rectangular palette with bevelled sides and a rectangular depression on the top. Rubbing stone with rounded top and flat base. Used to grind pigments for ink or cosmetics.

Object Palette & Rubber
Provenance Abydos, Egypt
Site Cemetery E, North Section
Period Dynasty XIII
Material Serpentine
Subject Egyptology
Ref. No 1900.54:47
Copyrights Bolton Council