Cosmetic Palette
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Cosmetic palette carved out of quartz, a hard stone favoured amongst the Nubian A-Group for making palettes, used to grind pigments such as malachite or galena, from which eye-paint was made. From Kostamneh, grave 97 K'06. From Liverpool University Institute of Archaeology excavations at Kostamneh, 1906.