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Palette, rectangular Predynastic, BadarianMatmar

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Accession: 32.2.30
Find spot: Matmar, Northern Upper Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Predynastic, Badarian
Date: ca. 4400–3800 B.C.
Date range: 4400 BCE – 3800 BCE
Materials: ['greywacke']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Palette, rectangular (32.2.30). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/42643

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Predynastic, Badarian, ca. 4400–3800 B.C. Greywacke. H. 11.2 × W. 5.2 × Th. 0.7 cm (4 7/16 × 2 1/16 × 1/4 in.). From: Cemetery 3100, Thrown out of grave, Matmar, Northern Upper Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: BSAE/Brunton excavations, 1931. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1932.

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