Cosmetic palette in the form of a Nile tortoise

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Cosmetic palette in the form of a Nile tortoise is Naqada culture Pre-Dynastic Egyptian antiquity, made of schist, dating to the 4th millennium BC and now in the collection of the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon. It is a cosmetic palette in the shape of a Trionyx soft-shell turtle from the River Nile.

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  • Jean-Claude Goyon, L'Égypte antique : à travers la collection de l'institut d'égyptologie Victor-Loret de Lyon, Paris - Lyon, Somogy - musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, 2007, 120 p. (ISBN 978-2-7572-0139-8).