A PAIR OF BRONZE AND ALABASTER FUNERARY 'EYES'

THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD/LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1086-350 B.C.

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A PAIR OF BRONZE AND ALABASTER FUNERARY 'EYES'
THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD/LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 1086-350 B.C.
Each with black inlay pupil, 1¾ in. (4.5 cm.) long av.; a New Kingdom toilette implement in the form of tweezer-razors, the two elements riveted together in the middle, Dynasty XVIII-XIX (1550-1196 B.C.), 2¼ in. (5.7 cm.) long; and a bronze razor or embalming knife, the flat handle with flaring terminal, a hook at end of the curving blade, Dynasty XVIII (1550-1307 B.C.), 7 in. (17.9 cm.) long (4)

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Item two (tweezer-razors): cf. R. A. Lunsingh Scheurleer (ed.), Egypte: eender en anders, Allard Pierson Museum, Amsterdam, 1984, p. 102, no. 213, col. pl. on p. 124 for similar; and Egypt's Golden Age: The Art of Living in the New Kingdom, 1558-1085 B.C., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1982, pp. 193-194, nos. 225-226 for a full discussion of the possible uses of this toilette implement. Item three (razor): cf. Egypt's Golden Age, op. cit., p. 192, no. 223 for the type.

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