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Marble palette
Technical analysis: Ultraviolet-induced visible light luminescence examination
This palette, carved from a fine-grained marble, is completely intact. Its thin walls curve up along the long sides creating a trough shape. The short ends are carved concave so that each of the four corners comes to a point. A similar palette was found on Naxos. (1).
The yellowish marble surface is covered with brownish encrustation that is heavier on the underside than on top.
Sandy MacGillivray and Wendy Walker
(1) For similar palettes, see Thimme, Jürgen, ed. 1977. Art and Culture of the Cyclades: Handbook of an Ancient Civilisation. pp. 327, 514-15, cat. no. 334, Karlsruhe: C. F. Müller; and a trough-shaped palette found in Tomb 18 at Aplomata in Naxos, see Kontoleon, Nikolaos. 1972. Ανασκαφαί Νάξου, Πρακτικά της εν Αθήναις Αρχαιολογικής Εταιρείας. pl. 139, 2.3.
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