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Gerzeh Palette

The Gerzeh Palette, or “Hathor Palette”, “Cow-Head Palette”. has topics containing five stars, a pair of horns, and a stylized “head”.

This unusual schist palette was part of a Predynastic funerary assemblage which also contained ordinary vessels. 

It has an oval shape that widens slightly towards the top and it is pierced so that it could be suspended.

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