Palette with Two Birds
Predynastic Period, late Naqada II-Naqada III, ca. 3300-3000 B.C.E.
Graywacke, shell, faience beads, 4 5/8 x 8 7/8 in. (11.8 x 22.5 cm)
# 09.889.161, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund

Palette in the Form of a Bird, Perhaps a Guinea Fowl
Predynastic Period, Naqada II Period, ca. 3600-3200 B.C.E.
Graywacke, shell or bone, black paste, 7 1/2 x 1/4 x 11 1/4 in. (19 x 0.7 x 28.5 cm)
# 76.7, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund

Photo © Joan Lansberry, May 2012


Double Bird Palette
LACMA M.80.199.72

Several Palettes
Metropolitan Museum