tour 11 of 11
Fish
Fish make-up box
The fish is in fact a box, used for holding
make-up (cosmetics). You can just see that the body is a sliding
lid, and the fins are part of the base. The fish box has been put
inside a bowl.
There is
much mystery surrounding it. The box (already placed inside the
bowl) was found in a grave, strapped to the private parts of the
male corpse. The corpse had been buried lying face down, which was
very unusual. Even more strange, three real fish had been placed
across the back of his skull. Their skeletons
remain.
We don't
know why any of this was done, but it was probably a practice
borrowed from ancient Egypt.