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Description: | Plaster copy of a slate palette, commonly known as the Battlefield Palette, Vultures Palette or Giraffes Palette. Part of this is in the Ashmolean Museum and the rest in the British Museum (EA20791). It belongs to the Predynastic period, c3200 BC. This shows the underside with a giraffe and a bird. The other side shows a lion and vulture preying on dead bodies. The original is published in Peet, T. Eric, 1915. 'The Art of the Predynastic Period' In Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 88-94. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | 3200 B.C.
Predynastic, Naqada III | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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