comb
- Museum number
- EA71917
- Description
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Wooden comb originally with six teeth but one of the end ones is wanting. The handle ends in a zoomorphic(?) terminal and is decorated along the edges with serrations. Four shallow grooves across the face join the serrations and two are found immediately above the teeth. A single circular hole is placed centrally towards the terminal and four are arranged above the teeth. A hair ornament?
- Dimensions
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Height: 18.50 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.80 centimetres
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Width: 6 centimetres
- Location
- On display (G65/dc18)
- Condition
- fair (incomplete)
- Acquisition date
- 1989
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA71917
- Registration number
- 1990,0127.100
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: QI.64/195
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Miscellaneous number: QI.73.1.17
