Cosmetic Containers
This category includes items that are used for holding pigments.
This category contains items that are used for holding pigments.
Objects: Cosmetic Containers Export: JSON - XML - CSV
| Object | U Number | Museum Number (UPM Date Reg Number) | Museum Number (BM Registration Number) | Museum Number (UPM B-number) | Description (Catalog Card) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 15459 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Kohl pot. Marble(?) White. In form of double column. [drawing 1:1] TA |
| 17092 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Kohl pot. Limestone? White. Shaped as a double column, ech one perforated to hold the kohl. |
| 19426 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Kohl pot.. 'alabaster'. Half of : originally two circular pots (with holes for restoring lids) made in one piece, supported by the figure of a reclining ram. Coarse wash[?]. Broken in half and only one receptacle at the front part of the ram remaning. |
| 17440 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Kohl pot? Ivory? Fragment. |
| 7907 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Kohl stick case. Ivory. Plain tube rounded at base. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card] |
| 17140 | (none) | 1931,1010.191 | (none) | Kohl tube. Bone. Lathe-turned. [drawing 1:1] |
| 19427 | (none) | (none) | (none) | kohl-pot. 'alabaster'. rectangular, with two window receptacles. Round the shoulder a band of rope moulding in relief. |
| 19428 | 35-1-42 | (none) | (none) | Kohl-pot. 'alabaster'. rectangular ram[?]-shaped on 4 short legs, rope moulding along shoulder : 2 cylinder receptacles. | |
| 6488 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Marble palette? Mottled. Flate one side, curved on the other, rounded at corners. Hole pierced in each corner. E. |
| 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. |
| 11823 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Pair copper cockle shells. Fitted together (poor condition). |
| 6771 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Palette alabaster mottled rectangle. |
| 6772 | (none) | 1927,0527.209 | (none) | Palette. Alabaster. Mottled. Rectangular. E. |
| 17948 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Palette. Flint. Ground hollow. [drawing 1:1] |
| 11841 | 30-12-549 | (none) | (none) | Palette. Soft fossiliferous limestone in form of a shell. Outside decorated with a mountain pattern: the inside is divided into 3 compartments containing the remains of white pigment. | |
| 6838 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Palette? Black stone. Sides rectangular, rounded ends. E. |
| 8731 | (none) | (none) | B17221 | Rectangular paint? box. Limestone. Grey. Resting on 4 low legs. 5 holes 0025 deep and 002 in diam bored into the receptacle. One hole in the middle and one at each corner; two horizontal ribs decorated with vertical notches rim round the sides of the box. One leg missing - part of top missing. [drawing 1:3] sketch. | |
| 11214 | (none) | (none) | B16969 | Silver Paint Box. In 2 compartments consisting of 2 small hemispherical bowls with a straight partition between. Traces of black paint in one compartment. Minute perforated lugs on either side in the middle to allow of suspension. Rib runs round width of belly of box on the outside. [drawing] | |
| 10311 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone (Palette?) Flat elliptical pebble greyish [drawing] 1:1 |
| 15511 | 31-16-486 | (none) | (none) | Stone palette. A disk of reddish-brown pebble: in the centre a patch of red color (ground powder) of exactly the tint used to paint the face of the figurinee 15398. (chipped, and a piece of the rim missing). |
| 13707 | (none) | 1930,1213.237 | (none) | Stone palette. brown pebble. Flat. [drawing 1:1] |
| 15361 | (none) | 1930,0012.13 | (none) | Stone palette. Red sandstone. A flat disk with slight worn depression in the centre of each side. |
| 6684 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Stone-palette? Rectangular. Slightly convex. E. |
| 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. | |
| 10820B | (none) | (none) | (none) | Tomb Group. (A)[A and G] 2 silver earrings, 2 1/2 coils. 1-broken and part missing. (B) [B and H] 2 cockle shells with green paint (both broken) (C) Broken silver finger ring, 4 strands of wire, the 2 middle strands spiral. Part missing. (D) Large shell of the type used to serve as a lamp. Badly broken. (E) Few silver double conoids, a few lapis and remains of glazed frit ring beads. (F) A copper pin with a copper ball head. Badly broken. Type V. |