Greywacke palette.  Objects like this were used with a pebble to grind minerals such as malachite to make eyepaint. Marked with the grave number 182 in pencil.


From the 1897-1899 excavations at Hierakonpolis by James Quibell and Frederick Green, on behalf of W. M. Flinders Petrie's newly founded Egyptian Research Account.   


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Greywacke palette. Objects like this were used with a pebble to grind minerals such as malachite to make eyepaint. Marked with the grave number 182 in pencil. From the 1897-1899 excavations at Hierakonpolis by James Quibell and Frederick Green, on behalf of W. M. Flinders Petrie's newly founded Egyptian Research Account. CONDITION NOTE (1998):

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