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DRESS AND PERSONAL ADORNMENT
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shows that it was worn as
part of the head-gear, but
for other uses there were
also straight combs with
finer teeth. These were of
ivory or bone, occasionally
of very hard, white baked
clay.1 They often bear re-
liefs and other decorations,
and of course belonged to
the men's toilet as well as
the women's.
The women's hair usually
Figs. 70, 71. Gold Hairpins (Troy)
falls in several long slender braids, or a single heavy one.
Sometimes the tress is curled up at the end, as in the
ivory (Fig. 72), an effect doubtless assisted by
the application of ointment. That unguents were ° "^
in use, possibly the curling-iron as well, witness the little
corkscrew curls which crown this woman's forehead, and
which the Greeks so much affected in the age of archaic
art.
In the acropolis graves at Mycenae were found several
gold ornaments which are thought by some to be earrings.2
This is not improbable in itself, though we know
» • i • r • Earrings
oi no monuments — with a single exception —
which represent a woman with rings in her ears. The ex-
ceptional case is that of a woman on the mirror-handle
(Fig. 82). But all the women on the ivories, this one
included, seem distinctly foreign in the arrangement of the
1 Mycenae, p. 79 ; figured.
2 Schlit-mann, Mycenae, III. 293,295, 296 ; Schuchhardt, Figs. 169-171. At
Troy gold earrings were found in large numbers, — fifty-six of them together
in the Great Treasure, — and in designs of great variety and beauty. (Ilios,
p. 466 ff. et passim.)
179
shows that it was worn as
part of the head-gear, but
for other uses there were
also straight combs with
finer teeth. These were of
ivory or bone, occasionally
of very hard, white baked
clay.1 They often bear re-
liefs and other decorations,
and of course belonged to
the men's toilet as well as
the women's.
The women's hair usually
Figs. 70, 71. Gold Hairpins (Troy)
falls in several long slender braids, or a single heavy one.
Sometimes the tress is curled up at the end, as in the
ivory (Fig. 72), an effect doubtless assisted by
the application of ointment. That unguents were ° "^
in use, possibly the curling-iron as well, witness the little
corkscrew curls which crown this woman's forehead, and
which the Greeks so much affected in the age of archaic
art.
In the acropolis graves at Mycenae were found several
gold ornaments which are thought by some to be earrings.2
This is not improbable in itself, though we know
» • i • r • Earrings
oi no monuments — with a single exception —
which represent a woman with rings in her ears. The ex-
ceptional case is that of a woman on the mirror-handle
(Fig. 82). But all the women on the ivories, this one
included, seem distinctly foreign in the arrangement of the
1 Mycenae, p. 79 ; figured.
2 Schlit-mann, Mycenae, III. 293,295, 296 ; Schuchhardt, Figs. 169-171. At
Troy gold earrings were found in large numbers, — fifty-six of them together
in the Great Treasure, — and in designs of great variety and beauty. (Ilios,
p. 466 ff. et passim.)