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Walters, Henry Beauchamp
Catalogue of the bronzes, Greek, Roman, and Etruscan in the Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities, British Museum — London, 1899

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C. OBJECTS IJSED IN TOILET (2383—2456).

I. PINS (2383-2393).

2383.

2384.

2385.

2386.

2387.

2388.

2389.

2390.

2391.

2392.

2393.

PIN, longand thin, with conical head. Length 15J in. Orvieto, 1891.

PIN, very thin ; one end has a flat diamond-shaped point. Length 7 s in. Orvieto, 1891.

PIN, with head in the forrn of a right hand issuing from a calyx,
holding the bust of a grotesque figure, with projecting ears. Ht. 4$ in.
Castellani, 1872.

PIN, as the last; instead of the bust, the hand holds a fruit. Ht. 4! in.
Castellani, 1872.

PIN, ending in a pomegranate. Length 3J in. Athens, 1865.

PIN with head spreading out like an inverted cone ; below it is a series
of moulded rings, increasing in size in the middle. Length 16 in. From
Bex, Canton Vaux. Presented by W. T. Belt, Esq., 1883.

PIN, in the forrn of a snake. Length 6 in. Payne Knight Coll. Very

rude.

PIN, in the forrn of a snake, with flat triangular head. Length 3I in.
Point broken off.

PIN, in the forrn of a snake, with flat head as last. Length 3J in.
Corroded.

Flg. 70 = No. 2386.

PIN, like a modern hair-pin. Length 3J in. From Corfu. Woodhouse Coll., 1868.

PIN, as the last, the head twisted into three loops. Length in. From Corfu. Wood-
house Coll., 1868.

II. MISCELLANEOUS IMPLEMENTS (2394-2419).

2394. TOILET-INSTRUMENTS, four together on a ring :
(1) Depilatory, with circularends, and a band moving up and
down for tightening the hold ; (2) tooth-pick (dentiscalpium),
in the form of a spike with moulded handle ; (3) nail-cutter,
with moulded handle, the blade spade-shaped ; (4) uncertain
object, with moulded handle, ending in a flat circular head.
From Vinzelles near Macon, 1850. Cf. an Anglo-Saxon
specimen in Roach-Smith, Collect. Antig. vi. p. 152.

2395. DEPILATORY AND EAR-PICK (auriscalpium).
The ear-pick works on a hinge inside the tweezers, and ends
in a srnall hollowed-out disc ; the tweezers are marked with
incised patterns, and the ends are bent in ; a ring is attached
to the loop at the head. Length 3' in. Cf. Roach-Smith,
Collect. Antiq. ii. 5, 1.

Fig. 71 = No. 2394.
 
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