Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · cosmetic_object
Palette with double bird heads with inlaid eyes Predynastic, Naqada IIHierakonpolis (Nekhen)
Description
Palette, double birds. Predynastic, Naqada II, ca. 3500–3300 B.C. Greywacke, shell (?). H: 13 cm (5 1/8 in.); W: 5.7 cm (2 1/4 in.). From: Fort Cemetery (Hk 27), Tomb 68, Hierakonpolis (Nekhen), Southern Upper Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1934–35. Subject: Birds. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1935.
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