Stone palette

The Ancient Orient Museum was able to analyse the remains of substances adhering to a number of stone palettes, which turned out to be colored cosmetic powders akin to blush.

A frieze discovered in Butkara shows a woman using a mirror as she puts her fingers into one of these stone palettes.

[1] These stone palettes provide an interesting instance of Hellenistic art in the northwestern Indian subcontinent.

Egyptians are known to have made stone palettes in the form of cups ("coupelles") with images of deities during the 2nd century CE, at the time of Roman Egypt.

They variously represent Isis,[2][3] Horus-Sobek,[4] Sarapis,[5] Harpocrates or Osiris.

Indo-Greek stone palette representing an Hellenistic Nereid goddess riding a Ketos sea-monster, 2nd century BCE, Sirkap .