Cosmetic Palette

Fish-shaped greywacke palette. Miniature sized and pierced. Marked in black, "679"; and in pencil, "50". Excavated by Professor Petrie at Naqada during the winter of 1894-5 for the Egyptian Research Account; Ex Norwich Castle Museum, inv. 54.04 (donated by Flaxman Spurrell, 1904). Petrie and Quibell, 'Naqada and Ballas' (London, 1896).