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Palette shaped like a fish Predynastic, Naqada II

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 07.228.61. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 07.228.61
Period: Predynastic, Naqada II
Date: ca. 3650–3300 B.C.
Date range: 3650 BCE – 3300 BCE
Materials: ['greywacke']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Palette shaped like a fish (07.228.61). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/213897

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Palette, fish-shaped. Predynastic, Naqada II, ca. 3650–3300 B.C. Greywacke. L. 210.8 × W. 144.8 cm (83 × 57 in.). From: Egypt. Subject: Fish. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1907.

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