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Naqada, grave 271 (Naqada II b).
Plundered grave with four ivory peg statuettes placed upright at 8 cms apart in
a bed of clean sand overlying human bone. Behind the figures was a plastered
textile cloth painted in red, green, black and white. It appears that the body
had been purposely dismembered. Other objects in the tomb included a fish-shaped
slate with malachite on it, a turtle slate, a pair of ivory tusks (one solid and
one hollow), fish-tail flint knife, a slate figure in a bag with malachite, a
flat cake of resin, stone vases, large amounts of red coral for beads, sand and
gravel filled pots. |