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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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]. |
| 8138A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 cockle shells. Containing traces of brown and green paint. |
| 8138B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 cockle shells. Containing traces of brown and green paint. |
| 8145A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 cockle shells containing green paint. |
| 8145B | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-B] 2 cockle shells containing green paint. |
| 8167 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cockle shell. Containing green paint. |
| 8192 | (none) | (none) | B17040 | Cockle shell. Containing green paint. |
| 8205 | (none) | (none) | (none) | Cockle shells. A pair. Containing green paint. |
| 8222 | (none) | (none) | B17187 | Cockle shells. Five, containing paint. [4 shells under this number in UPM?] |
| 8281A | (none) | (none) | (none) | [A-F] Six cockle shells. One containing black paint. Two containing green paint. |