Comb

49.47.1001

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Small ivory comb, broken in two and mended, with very little of the teeth remaining. One side is carved with the representation of a standing figure making an offering to a seated figure in a shrine. On the other there seems to be faint trace of a bird - perhaps a stork or other wading bird? Marked by the excavator with the grave number 120 K'06. Marked in black with John Garstang's collection number GN 301. From Liverpool University Institute of Archaeology excavations at Kostamneh, 1906. CONDITION NOTE 1998: Incomplete, previous repair, surface is finely cracked and friable in areas, adhesive around join, surface dirt, worn.