Comb

"This hair comb is styled differently from catalogue numbers 113 and 114. The sets of coarse and fine teeth are placed on the long sides of a narrow rectangular plaque, and bracketed by end pieces with curving profiles. The plaque is decorated on one side only with a scattered arrangement of dotted circles.

Examples of this type may be seen in Rutschowscaya, p. 33, nos. 31, 32; Gazda, 1983a, p. 27, fig. 44; Petrie, 1927, p. 26, pl. XX, nos. 21, 29, pl. XXI, nos. 43, 46." -Eunice Dauterman Maguire, Henry Maguire and Maggie J. Duncan-Flowers, Art and Holy Powers in the Early Christian House (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989), 192.

James, T.G.H. Excavating in Egypt: The Egypt Exploration Society 1882-1982. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982.

Maguire, Eunice Dauterman, Henry Maguire and Maggie J. Duncan-Flowers. Art and Holy Powers in the Early Christian House. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989.


The British Museum. Antinoupolis at the British Museum Online Catalog. https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/all_current_projects/antinoupolis.aspx

Griffith Institute Archives, University of Oxford. John de Monins Johnson photographic negatives. http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4johnson.html

Examples of combs decorated with pointed circles (on file in museum):
Rutschowscaya, M. 1986 Catalogue des bois de l'Égypte copte. Paris: Musée du Louvre, Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux.