comb
- Museum number
- EA54474
- Description
-
Wooden comb with two rows of teeth; central rectangular open-work panel depicting three human figures and a lion; decorated with annules on both sides.
- Production date
- 6thC-8thC
- Dimensions
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Length: 24.20 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.58 centimetres
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Width: 7.20 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
2013 July - October, Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Origins of the Afro Comb
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1919
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA54474
- Registration number
- 1919,0208.133
