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Palette with antelope heads and a turtle Predynastic, Naqada II

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 21.6.113. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 21.6.113
Period: Predynastic, Naqada II
Date: ca. 3650–3500 B.C.
Date range: 3650 BCE – 3500 BCE
Materials: ['greywacke']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Palette with antelope heads and a turtle (21.6.113). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/42030

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Predynastic, Naqada II, ca. 3650–3500 B.C. Greywacke. H: 14 cm (5 11/16); W: 14.5 cm (5 11/16 in.). From: Egypt. Subject: Animals. Credit: Gift of Lily S. Place, 1921.

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Materials Greywacke

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