Description
Hands palette
Cairo CG 14285
Unprovenanced (Abydos ?)
uncertain datation (probably 1st Dynasty)
h. c. 15cm.

Bibliography
Asselberghs, Chaos en beheersing... p. 167, 281, pl. 59, fig. 107, 108 (undecorated side) (Thanks to John D. Degreef for the picture and this reference).
Similar palettes with hands in relief:
- H.G. Fischer, Some emblematic uses of Hieroglyphs..., in: Metropolitan Museum Journal, 5, 1972, 5ff., esp. p. 34, fig. 6 = Ancient Egypt in the Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 1-11, 1977, 31ff., fig. 6 (after J.E. Quibell, Archaic Objects, 14234, 14235);
- id., Addenda, in: Ancient Egypt in the Metropolitan Museum Journal, vol. 1-11, 1977, 181 (line drawing) = Z.Y. Saad Excavations at Helwan, 1969, pl. 75.

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