This category contains items that are used for holding pigments.

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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)
17139 (none) (none) (none) Ivory kohl-pot in the form of a lotus carved and with lines inlaid with black. In very bad condition. Broken and laminated. [drawing 1:1]
17140 (none) 1931,1010.191 (none) Kohl tube. Bone. Lathe-turned. [drawing 1:1]
17440 (none) (none) (none) Kohl pot? Ivory? Fragment.
17636 (none) (none) (none) Kohl holder. Frit. Double variety. [drawing 1:1]
17948 (none) (none) (none) Palette. Flint. Ground hollow. [drawing 1:1]
17972A 32-40-139 (none) (none) [A-B] 2 palettes. Steatite. [drawing 1:1]
17972B (none) 1932,1008.40 (none) [A-B] 2 palettes. Steatite. [drawing 1:1]
17972C (none) (none) (none) [A-B] 2 palettes. Steatite. [drawing 1:1]
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.
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.
19529 (none) (none) (none) 2 Stone vases in stand. White calcite. Type JN 27
2631 (none) (none) (none) Fragment of small soap-stone box. Engraved with circular design. Sketch. [drawing]
3339 (none) (none) (none) Alabaster palette. For use in crushing toilet powders? Surface is hollowed by grinding.
6488 (none) (none) (none) Marble palette? Mottled. Flate one side, curved on the other, rounded at corners. Hole pierced in each corner. E.
6684 (none) (none) (none) Stone-palette? Rectangular. Slightly convex. E.
6771 (none) (none) (none) Palette alabaster mottled rectangle.
6772 (none) 1927,0527.209 (none) Palette. Alabaster. Mottled. Rectangular. E.
6838 (none) (none) (none) Palette? Black stone. Sides rectangular, rounded ends. 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.
7907 (none) (none) (none) Kohl stick case. Ivory. Plain tube rounded at base. [CARD MISSING Typed Transcription from British Museum Card]
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.
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.

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