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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. This figure is carved from Schist and is human form with a pointed chin, inlaid eyes and breasts. Three similar pendants were found bound together in the south-west corned of tomb T4.
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