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Ashmolean Mus., Oxford, 1895.841. Palette in the shape of a turtle with gazelle heads in place of the hind legs

Description
Turtle palette
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 1895.841
From Naqada, tomb 271 (Naqada IIb)
cm. 21,8 x 20,5


The photo has been kindly provided by Juan de la Torre and Teresa Soria
( EGIPTOMANIA.COM )

Bibliography
W.M.F. Petrie, Naqada and Ballas, 1895, 21, pl. 47, 11
W.M.F. Petrie, Predynastic Egypt Corpus, 1921, pl. 52, 2
R. Weill, Recherches, 1961, pt. II, p. 250
E. Baumgartel, Petrie's Naqada excavations. A supplement, 1970, pl. 12 (tomb 271)
J. Crowfoot-Payne, Catalogue of the Predynastic Egyptian Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, 1993, p. 222 (cat. n. 1809)
K. Cialowicz, Les Palettes Egyptiennes aux motifs zoomorphes et sans décoration, 1991, 36


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