Ancient Egyptian Palette of Qenna Tomb to Be Restored

In cooperation with the British Museum, a team of archaeologists of the Egyptian Museum started to restore an ancient Egyptian palette.

It was taken from a tomb that carried the number 100 of Qena tombs.

The tombs of Qena are located in El Koom El Ahmar district in Qena. Moreover, this tomb had the oldest one holding colorful inscriptions.

Sabah Abdel Razek, the Egyptian Museum’s general manager, indicated that restoring such a palette is part of the museum’s development plan.

She pointed out that this piece’s age is almost 6000 years old, and it was placed at the Egyptian Museum in 1898.

In the same context, archaeologist Dr. Abdel Rahman Medhat explained that the team scanned the palette and documented its details.

Furthermore, the initial examination of the piece expressed that it suffers from some cracks, and missing parts, so the palette needs to enhance its main structure and strengthening the weak parts.

It is worthy mentioning that the palette depicted a parade of boats while carrying a dead body. On the other hand, the left of the piece showed a man while controlling three tied-hands persons.

The tomb may belong to a high-ranked official according to some initial studies about the tomb.

Contributed by Ali Abu Dashish