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The palette is an established shape in the repertoire of Cycladic marble utensils. Recurrent traces of red pigment, as here, suggest that palettes were used to prepare colors for application to statuettes and perhaps also to human beings.
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Title: Marble palette
Period: Early Cycladic I
Date: ca. 3000–2800 BCE
Culture: Cycladic
Medium: Marble
Dimensions:
width 2 9/16in. (6.5cm)
length 5 1/16in. (12.9cm)
Classifications: Miscellaneous-Stone, Miscellaneous-Stone Vases
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1996
Object Number: 1996.323
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