Rectangular ivory scribal palette with two wells to hold red and black pigments and a central cavity for holding pens, inscribed with the prenomen of Amenhotep I and offering formulae for the scribe of the fortress Thutmose: Ancient Egyptian, 18th Dynasty, c.1525-1504 BC

Palette of serpentine in the form of a rectangular block with chamfered edges: Ancient Egyptian, New Kingdom

Palette in hard brown wood carved into the form of a sea shell: Ancient Egyptian, Middle Egypt, Sedment, 18th Dynasty

Palette of mudstone decorated with a border of three incised parallel lines, with traces of ground malachite on one side: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Hu (Diospolis Parva), Grave R 37, Predynastic, Naqada III, c.3200-3000 BC

Palette in slate, of elliptical shape and plano-convex: Ancient Egyptian, Predynastic, Late Gerzean

Painted plaster reproduction of the reverse face only of the 'Narmer palette' of King Narmer, Original: Ancient Egyptian, 1st Dynasty, c.3000 BC, Plaster facsimile: Egypt, Cairo, AD c.1970

Flat palette of slate in thick rhomboidal form with a central depression: Ancient Egyptian, Predynastic, Naqada I

Flat palette of slate in oval fish form, with upper and lower edges notched in imitation of fins: Ancient Egyptian, Predynastic, Naqada I

Flat palette of slate in oval fish form, with upper edge hatched and notched to represent dorsal fin and tail: Ancient Egyptian, Predynastic, Naqada I

Flat palette in grey-green slate in the form of a turtle: Ancient Egyptian, Predynastic, Naqada II

Flat palette of slate with a trapezoid shape, surmounted by the figure of a gazelle in silhouette: Ancient Egyptian, Predynastic, Naqada II

Siltstone palette in the shape of a shield, surmounted by two outward facing bird heads, pierced in centre: Ancient Egyptian, Predynastic period, Naqada II, c.3500-3200 BC

Rectangular porphyritic palette with oval depression for girinding pigments, and conoidal muller: Ancient Egyptian, possibly New Kingdom, c.1550-1069 BC

Rhomboid siltstone palette, with central depression from the burial of a child: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, el-Mahasna, Burial H.90, Predynastic Period, c. 4000 - 3500 BC

Palette of slate, spear-head form: Ancient Egyptian, Predynastic Period, c. 4400 - 3100 BC

Palette of slate, fish form: Ancient Egyptian, Predynastic Period, c. 4400 - 3100 BC