comb
- Museum number
- EA81827
- Description
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A wooden comb with a flat handle cut into the shape of an arrow-head at the top. There are 6 peg-like teeth with round cross-sections.
- Dimensions
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Length: 2.40 centimetres (average - teeth)
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Length: 2.55 centimetres
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Thickness: 0.60 centimetres
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Width: 7.70 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, The ends of the teeth are broken.
- Acquisition date
- 2008
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA81827
- Registration number
- 2008,1008.1596
- Additional IDs
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Excavation/small finds number: 66A/66 (excavation number)
