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Description: | This palette is made of half a flat, rectangular piece of slate with rounded corners. It has a hole on one of the corners that could have served to hold a cosmetic application instrument. Tarkhan was one of the Egyptian states main cemeteries with over 2000 graves and tombs dating from pre-dynastic Egypt in c.3100 BC and onwards throughout the Old Kingdom. It was excavated in 1913 by Flinders Petrie. Earliest graves have crouched inhumations directly into the sand but this became uncommon with the advent of the Old Kingdom practise of embalming.
Accession number: NCM 1913-116 | Subjects: | EGYPTIAN | Temporal: | 4400BC-4133BC | Source: | Nottingham City Museums and Galleries | Identifier: | http://media.culturegrid.org.uk/mediaLib... | Go to resource |
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