Lot 119
  • 119

Three Schist Palettes, Predynastic Period, Nagada I/III, circa 4000-3000 B.C.

Estimate
1,500 - 2,500 USD
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Description

  • Three Schist Palettes
  • 11 5/8 , 4 7/8 , and 6 7/16 in. 29.6, 12.4, and 16.4 cm.
comprising a palette of rhomboid shape with worn depressions in the center of each side, a palette of circular shape with suspension hole on the perimeter, and a palette of slender oval form surmounted by fragmentary addorsed bird heads, two incised S-shaped designs flanking the suspension hole on one side.

Provenance

Ernest Cramer-Sarasin (1838-1923), Geneva, Switzerland, collected in Egypt in the fourth quarter of the 19th Century