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Make-up palette in the form of a tilapia fish, slate, beaten, retouched (stone working), smoothed, drilled, graywacke, Total: Height: 26.5 cm; Width: 39 cm; Depth: 2.5 cm; Depth: 2 cm (plate), ritual objects and accessories, grave goods, fish (animals), The make-up palette has the form of a tilapia fish (cichlid) The plate thickness is tapered to the edge by grinding on both sides. The head of the fish has a slightly protruding mouth, the eye is indicated by a hemispherical depression and was once probably filled with a different colored mass. Gills and fins are schematically marked by incised lines. The caudal fin is set off against the dorsal and rear ventral fin by a wedge-shaped incision each at the edge of the plate. On the surface of one side a large, flat depression created by rubbing the make-up is visible, a smaller one on the other. Brown-black color remains have been preserved here. Greywacke make-up pallets are characteristic objects of the naqada culture of the 4th millennium BC.. (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)