Palette and pestle

Part of the jewellery and cosmetic items from the burial of a young woman, including this slate palette and grinder, a calcite kohl jar and lid, calcite jar, faience and cornelian bead string, bead strings and a cornelian scarab amulet. Intact burials are rare at all periods, and this group shows the range of personal goods owned by young, upper class women at Abydos in the late Old Kingdom.