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The Cosmetic palettes are archaeological artifacts originally used to grind and apply ingredients for facial or body cosmetics. The decorative palettes of the late 4th millennium BCE appear to have lost this function and became commemorative, ornamental, and possibly ceremonial. They generally were made of softer and workable stone such as slate or mudstone. Many of the palettes were found at Hierakonpolis, a centre of power in pre-dynastic Upper Egypt. They cease to appear in tomb assemblages after the unification of the country.
[edit] Notable palettesNotable decorative palettes are:
Even undecorated palettes were often given pleasing shapes, such as the Zoomorphic palettes, which include turtles, and very commonly fish. The common fish zoomorphic palette, often had a upper-centrally formed hole, presumably for suspension, and thus display. The Near East stone palettes are from Canaan, [1] Bactria, and Gandhara. [edit] History of Egyptian palettesThe first stone palettes appear in the predynastic of Ancient Egypt. They are the Rhomboidal palettes. They did not contain the later created circular mixing-pool. [edit] References
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