Total Palettes Catalogued
1330
Number of Collections Catalogued

65

Top 10 Largest Collections
  1. Petrie Museum of Egyptian and Sudanese Archaeology - 329
  2. Manchester Museum - 116
  3. Varldskulturmuseerna - 104
  4. Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire - 89
  5. Museum of Fine Arts Boston - 70
  6. Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology - 65
  7. British Museum - 53
  8. Museum of Art and Anthropology - 44
  9. Brooklyn Museum - 39
  10. Oriental Institute Museum - 39
Number of Unique Morphologies

80

Top 10 Common Morphologies
  1. Fish - 247
  2. Rectangle - 183
  3. Rhomboid - 175
  4. Scutiform-Birds - 108
  5. Oval - 57
  6. Bird - 55
  7. Turtle - 52
  8. Boat - 45
  9. Fragment - 44
  10. Shapeless - 41
Number of Find Locations

61

Top 10 Find Locations
  1. Unknown - 679
  2. Naqada - 233
  3. el-Ahaiwah - 41
  4. Tarkhan - 35
  5. Abydos - 32
  6. Ballas - 32
  7. Hierakonpolis - 27
  8. Mesaid (Mesa'eed) - 25
  9. Badari - 23
  10. el-Mahasna - 23
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Surface Pitting
Palettes with pitting on one or both surfaces
13.76%
Rhomboid Indentations
Rhomboidal palettes with ground indentations
21.14%

Fish-Shaped Palettes - 263
Suspension Hole
Palettes perforated with a ‘suspension ‘hole’
76.43%
Gills
Palettes with the representation of gills         
19.77%
Top 10 Anatomy Codes
The most commonly represented fish shapes
  1. 32222401 - 19
  2. 52222601 - 16
  3. 42222601 - 13
  4. 32222601 - 13
  5. 52222401 - 11
  6. 43333401 - 4
  7. 32222600 - 4
  8. 52222600 - 4
  9. 42222401 - 3
  10. 12222601 - 3

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