Cosmetic dish

Dynasty 18 (about 1550-1295 BC)

56.20.255


Brown stone tray showing a dead ibex

Length:6.7cm

This item is a steatite cosmetic dish in the form of an ibex with bound legs. Details of the horns and tied legs are carefully indicated. The other side of the body has been hollowed out as a bowl for holding make-up. The ibex symbolises fertility and regeneration.

Formerly in the Sir Rider Haggard collection.

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