comb
- Museum number
- EA81826
- Description
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A wooden comb with flat broad ends, curved so that the comb is wider at the edges than the middle. The tapering teeth are shorter in the centre than those on the ends. Most of the 27 large teeth on one edge are broken. Most of the 70 fine closely-space teeth on the other edge are preserved. Decoration comprises incised concentric circles; on one side a central group of 9 and two pairs at the ends. On the other a central pair and two groups of 6 concentric circles at the ends.
- Production date
- 1100-1300AD
- Dimensions
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Length: 3 centimetres (average - teeth)
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Length: 8.80 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.80 centimetres (max)
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Width: 8.30 centimetres
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2013 July - October, Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Origins of the Afro Comb
- Condition
- fair
- Acquisition date
- 2008
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA81826
- Registration number
- 2008,1008.1595
- Additional IDs
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Excavation/small finds number: 69/43 (excavation number)
