Double ivory comb with coarse teeth on one side and fine teeth on the other. The fine teeth have almost all broken off. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 4/10/2005]

Collection type: Object
Description: Double ivory comb with coarse teeth on one side and fine teeth on the other. The fine teeth have almost all broken off. [El.B 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 4/10/2005]
Geographical reference: Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt; Abydos
Person: Field collector John Burges Eustace Garstang; PRM source F. Legge; PRM source Francis Legge
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian New Kingdom
Date collected: 1909
Acquisition information: Donated: 1909
Materials and processes: Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Process Carved
Dimensions: Length: max 93 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1909.26.11
Research and responses: Please note that Francis Legge donated many objects to the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities, most of which were donated in 1909 and 1910, from the Garstang Exhibition. [Source: Donor Index cards at the Ashmolean Museum, Department of Antiquities [L.Ph 25/3/2004]
Associated publications: Garstang, J. 1909. Excavations at Abydos, 1909: Preliminary description of the principal finds. Liverpool Annals of Archaeology and Anthropology 2, 125-129 , pl. XV-XVII. [AS 08/01/2010]

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