Personal Grooming

This category includes items associated with personal hygiene and/or altering appearance through cosmetics.

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U Number	Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number)	Museum Number (BM Registration Number)	Museum Number (UPM B-number)	Description (Catalog Card)
7881	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper kohl-stick(?) Head, round knob on square-section rod becoming round at 30mm [drawing 1:1]
7883	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper kohl-stick(?) Similar to U.7881, shaped thus [reference to drawing] (broken) [drawing]
7886	(none)	1928,1009.342	(none)	Copper reticule. Usual cone with knob end: the case is broken, exposing the implements, viz: a tiny knife or spatula, a second apparently similar, a chisel-edged tool(?), a rod, possibly a kohl-stick [drawing]
7902	(none)	(none)	(none)	Comb. Ivory. Most of the teeth broken off short, only the end guard left to show their original length. On both sides of the flat upper part, an engraving of a bull set in a frame of lines and dotted circles. On one side the bull has his tail down. on the other above his back: otherwise, the 2 engravings are similar and show the bull with head lowered to strike. Very fine Phoenician work.
7904	(none)	(none)	(none)	Paint pot. Ivory. In form of sphinx of Phoenico-Assyrian style: the box is an oblong depression between the wings. Indifferent carving, and the wing in poor condition; half of the face of the sphinx missing. [additional notes on back of catalog card follow:] U.6665, correct Pl. reference in Pl.25. Plate 15. Captions wanted. Pl.23 = add catalogue number. Keep Pl.33 but insert the new weapon types. For Pl.34 (new), use metal objects above and 800m ran [last word illegible] types infers. Change Plate numbers 34 (adr[...]) h3. Plate 36, keep number. Plate 35, adr[...], change number h3. Pl.37 (adr[...]) to become a figure in the text. pp.25. Gold to catalogue U.6456, Legrain's [illegible] No.734.
7905	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mirror handle. Ivory. Rounded handle; rectangular tang at top to fit into mirror-socket. [drawing]
7906	(none)	(none)	(none)	Mirror handle. Shell. [drawing]
7907	(none)	(none)	(none)	Kohl stick case. Ivory. Plain tube rounded at base. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
7908	(none)	(none)	(none)	Kohl stick. Ivory. Rectangular in section, thickening towards the head and then sharpened to point.
7913	(none)	(none)	(none)	Comb. Ivory. White. Fragment. Two rows of teeth; one row has been worn down at an angle. The flat space between the tooth-rows decorated with lines and dotted circles.
7968	(none)	1928,1009.340	(none)	Copper reticule. Normal triangular type with 4 tools inside on a loop.
7984A	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Pair of cockle-shells. Containing white pigment.
7984B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A-B] Pair of cockle-shells. Containing white pigment.
7988B	(none)	(none)	(none)	[A] Copper knife. Straigh-sided with square shoulders to a short tang in which was one rivet (broken off: point of knife also broken but present). Oxydised onto the knife blade is a [B] copper reticule of normal type II.
8000	(none)	1928,1009.184	(none)	Three silver cockle shells. One inside the other. The inner one shows signs of a red substance perhaps a pigment. Natural size.
8001A	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cockle shells. (A) [A and D] a pair, containing white pigment. (B) single shell containing green pigment. (C) [C and E] a pair containing yellow pigment.
8001B	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cockle shells. (A) [A and D] a pair, containing white pigment. (B) single shell containing green pigment. (C) [C and E] a pair containing yellow pigment.
8001C	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cockle shells. (A) [A and D] a pair, containing white pigment. (B) single shell containing green pigment. (C) [C and E] a pair containing yellow pigment.
8001D	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cockle shells. (A) [A and D] A pair, containing white pigment. (B) Single shell containing green pigment. (C) A pair containing yellow pigment.
8001E	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cockle shells. (A) [A and D] a pair, containing white pigment. (B) single shell containing green pigment. (C) [C and E] a pair containing yellow pigment.
8013D	(none)	(none)	B16838	[A and B] Two silver bracelets. Made of three twists of wire. To one of these is attached by corrosion an [C] object of silver apparently containing a cockle shell [D]; the cockle shell has in it green pigment and was covered by a silver shell (broken) thus: [drawing] though it is impossible to say whether the shell is really belonging or only accidentally attached. Various beads are also attached by corrosion to the bracelet and also [E] an eye of lapis with white shell filling.
8037	(none)	(none)	(none)	Copper reticule. Normal type with 4 instruments.
8081	(none)	(none)	(none)	Cockle shells. Containing black and green pigment.
8133A	(none)	(none)	(none)	2 cockle shells. One containing white, the other containing yellow paint [A-B].
8133B	(none)	(none)	(none)	2 cockle shells. One containing white, the other containing yellow paint. [A-B].