Comb
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The wooden (high) comb has coarse and fine teeth on the narrow sides flanking the decorative middle section. The incised adornment shows five concentric circles, which are linked diagonally by lines comprising small dotted circles. In the intermediate spaces there are diamond-shaped accumulations of further dotted circles. These combs were obviously not used in everyday life for the manifest function of combing hair, as they do not show any signs of use. Women probably put them into their hair as decorative items. The comb was a funerary item placed in the graves in the Coptic cemetery of Karara.
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Kosack, Wolfgang: Alltag im alten Ägypten. Freiburg 1974, S. XVII, 50 S. [24 Taf.], A 1.