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Cosmetic palette in the form of a Nile tortoise
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.