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

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Object U Number Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) Museum Number (BM Registration Number) Museum Number (UPM B-number) Description (Catalog Card)
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.
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.
12652 (none) (none) (none) Comb. Ivory? Broken and partly decayed. Normal type of comb found in early graves.
12136 (none) (none) (none) Copper cockle shell.
14276 (none) (none) (none) Copper comb. Triangular top, with rolled head. [drawing]
17840 (none) (none) (none) Copper disk. (probably a mirror) of very thin metal : the rim neatly turned over as if there had been a wooden (?) backing. To it is attached by corrosion a second copper instrument similar to U.17839.
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]
11137 (none) (none) (none) Copper Manicure Tools. Inside a decayed copper reticule.
12740 30-12-272 (none) (none) Copper mirror (?). Broken - part missing.
11954A (none) (none) (none) Copper Mirror(?) [drawing 1:1]
11453 (none) (none) (none) Copper mirror. [drawing 1:1]
8308 (none) (none) (none) Copper mirror? Thin flat metal with tang for handle. [drawing] 1:1
19494 35-1-434 (none) (none) Copper mirror? a flat disk of thin metal with a short projecting tang for handle attachment.
15164 (none) (none) (none) Copper object. A circular plate with a short flat handle - possibly a mirror(?) Embedded in crystals which must be removed before cleaning. [drawing 1:5]
11434 30-12-335 (none) (none) Copper recticule. Normal type.
9286 (none) (none) (none) Copper reticule (tip broken)
9246 (none) (none) (none) Copper reticule Common type Manicure set Bottom missing Tools attached to a ring
8479 (none) (none) (none) Copper reticule Conical copper cap with tools inside attached to a ring. Common type.
9718 (none) (none) (none) Copper Reticule Containing manicure instruments Normal type Broken but complete
9731 (none) (none) (none) Copper Reticule Containing manicure tools
10771 (none) (none) (none) Copper Reticule Containing manicure tools attached to a ring Broken in 2 pieces Knob end
9260 (none) (none) B16965 Copper reticule Containing manicure tools attached to a ring Common type
10157 (none) (none) (none) Copper Reticule Containing manicure tools attached to a ring Normal type Tip missing
10321 (none) (none) (none) Copper Reticule Containing manicure tools attached to a ring Normal type Tip missing