Palette
date: label: Accession Date
content: 1912
name: label: Donor Name
content: Egyptian Exploration Fund
label: Site Name
content: Mahasna (el-Mahasna)
notes: label: Notes
content: Slate, lozenge or romboid shape. One end broken off.
label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Cosmetic palette c. 3800 BC. Common in graves before 3000 BC, cosmetic palettes provided a grinding surface for minerals in the eye paint needed to restore the deceased's eyesight. Later Egyptians kept eye paint in kohl pots.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 31 Jul 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Egyptian, Predynastic
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 054593
label: USNM Number
content: A275551-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Palette