Greywacke stone palette marked in ink (and pencil) ϕ[phi]97. From the Egypt Exploration Fund (now Society) 1899-1900 excavations at Abydos, Cemetery ϕ, grave ϕ97.

Objects like this were used with a pebble to grind minerals such as malachite to make eyepaint.

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Greywacke stone palette marked in ink (and pencil) ϕ[phi]97. From the Egypt Exploration Fund (now Society) 1899-1900 excavations at Abydos, Cemetery ϕ, grave ϕ97. Objects like this were used with a pebble to grind minerals such as malachite to make eyepaint.

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