Cosmetic palette
Little pallets of pigment were ground into powder on palettes and then mixed with fat to make eye paint. The earliest palettes were rhomboid; later, they were rectangular, oval, or round. Sometimes they were shaped like birds or fish.
Title:
Cosmetic palette
Time:
ca. 3000 BC
location: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Ägyptisch-Orientalische Sammlung Room V
Object Name:
Cosmetic palette
Culture:
Ägyptisch
Material/technology:
Slate
Dimensions:
L 11,3 cm, B 6,7 cm, T 1,03 cm
Copyright:
Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Ägyptisch - Orientalische Sammlung
Invs.:
Ägyptische Sammlung, INV 6919
Provenance:
1910, excavated by the Academy of Sciences, Vienna