Rhomboidal (diamond shaped) cosmetic palette with delicately cut notches in the edges. Objects like this were used with a pebble to grind minerals such as malachite to make eyepaint. Excavation not recorded but most likely from when Amy Urlin was part of an excavation team led by her brother-in-law, Professor Flinders Petrie, at Abydos, 1900-01. Lent by Amy Urlin to Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, 1912–1915, for an exhibition curated by Janet May Buchanan. On one side is a Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums sticker annotated in pencil with the registration number: 39n–’12.

CONDITION NOTE (1998): Worn, scratched, surface dirt, label adhered to surface.

Cosmetic Palette | National Museums Liverpool

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Rhomboidal (diamond shaped) cosmetic palette with delicately cut notches in the edges. Objects like this were used with a pebble to grind minerals such as malachite to make eyepaint. Excavation not recorded but most likely from when Amy Urlin was part of an excavation team led by her brother-in-law, Professor Flinders Petrie, at Abydos, 1900-01. Lent by Amy Urlin to Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, 1912–1915, for an exhibition curated by Janet May Buchanan. On one side is a Glasgow Art Gallery and Museums sticker annotated in pencil with the registration number: 39n–’12. CONDITION NOTE (1998): Worn, scratched, surface dirt, label adhered to surface.

Cosmetic Palette

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