comb
- Museum number
- EA81830
- Description
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Fragment of a dark brown long wooden comb with a single set of long teeth of which 5 survive intact and two remain as stumps. Decoration on the handle comprises cup and double ring stamp marks on both faces.
- Production date
- 1100-1300AD
- Dimensions
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Length: 19.50 centimetres (overall)
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Length: 11.60 centimetres (teeth)
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Thickness: 0.85 centimetres
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Width: 4.40 centimetres (max)
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2013 July - October, Cambridge, The Fitzwilliam Museum, Origins of the Afro Comb
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 2008
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA81830
- Registration number
- 2008,1008.1599
- Additional IDs
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Excavation/small finds number: 82.3.1/68 (excavation number)