161: Ivory Combs

Department Archive
Collection 1936 Exhibition Collection
Reference No. 1936/1/5/21
Level Item
Dimensions 25.6 x 45.9 cm
Scope and Content Card base with eight images attached. In the top left corner of each image can see the letters a-h, although some of these have been erased. The number 161 is pasted in the lower left corner. Each image (except those in the top right and bottom left - 1936/01/05/21/03 and 06) have beside them later annotations in pencil, giving bibliographic references. The original description in the catalogue reads: "Ivory combs: date from c. 750 to 500 B.C."
Notes In the Exhibition Catalogue this is under the subheading "Carvings in ivory and bone"