Marble palette
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.
Artwork Details
- 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
- Curatorial Department: Greek and Roman Art
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