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For this curator discussion post, the main theme that I chose was how ancient cultures used to groom themselves or provide self-care. I chose this main topic because I find it intriguing how those in the past were able to come up with ways to groom and keep themselves looking nice and presentable in ancient times and in many different cultures. A lot of the bath accessories that many people use every day have been used by many during ancient times despite some of them looking a little different from the ones we use today. I think that sometimes, it can be easy to feel disconnected when it comes to talking about people in ancient cultures. Just looking at the tools that they used for their self-grooming routines and comparing them with ours in our present lives is a very interesting and connecting moment. I feel as though it shows how humans can still be able to relate to each other through these simple tools that were used back then and are still used even now, for the same reasons and intentions.

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13th Century
Wood; carved, sawn, drilled, and painted
Attributed to Egypt
The MET museum

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/449531

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Like other articles of personal use in medieval times, combs-which were most often of wood, bone, and ivory-were often elaborately and beautifully decorated. One of the decorative devices most frequently employed in widely separated regions of the medieval Islamic world on wood, bone, ivory, jet, steatite, and even metal objects is that of drilled concentric circles. Here they are found throughout the central decorated band, including the background of the inscription. That inscription, free (see for example, the connection of the alif and lam of Iqbal ["prosperity"]) and attenuated for its early date, wishes "Everlasting glory and prosperity" (to its owner).

Manuel Keene in [Berlin 1981]

Inscription: Th comb has cartouches on both sides inscribed in thuluth script. One side begins with the phrase "Everlasting Glory", the other concludes the wish with "and Prosperity".

[ Frank Tano, New York, until 1938; sold to MMA]

Mexico City. Colegio de San Ildefonso. "Arte Islámico del Museo Metropolitano de Arte de Nueva York," September 30, 1994-January 8, 1995, no. 29.

"Masterpieces from The Metropolitan Museum of Art New York." In The Arts of Islam. Berlin, 1981. no. 61, pp. 156-57, ill. p. 157 (b/w).

Schimmel, Annemarie. "Islamic Calligraphy." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, n.s., vol. 50, no. 1 (Summer 1992). p. 26, ill. fig. 31 (b/w).

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Daniel S. Walker, Arturo Ponce Guadián, Sussan Babaie, Stefano Carboni, Aimee Froom, Marie Lukens Swietochowski, Tomoko Masuya, Annie Christine Daskalakis-Matthews, Abdallah Kahil, and Rochelle Kessler. "Colegio de San Ildefonso, Septiembre de 1994-Enero de 1995." In Arte Islámico del Museo Metropolitano de Arte de Nueva York. Mexico City: Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 1994. no. 29, pp. 102-3, ill. p. 103 (b/w).

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Comb Like other articles of personal use in medieval times, combs-which were most often of wood, bone, and ivory-were often elaborately and beautifully decorated.

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1550–1458 B.C.
Copper alloy
Excavated in Thebes, Egypt during Carnarvon/Carter excavations, 1911
The MET museum

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/547607

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Carnarvon, 5th Earl of and Howard Carter 1912. Five Years' Explorations at Thebes: a record of work done 1907-1911. London: Oxford University Press, pp. 70, 72, pl. LXV. 1.

Newberry, Percy E. and H. R. Hall 1922. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Ancient Egyptian Art. London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, p. 115, no. 16.

Scott, Nora E. 1944. Home Life of the Ancient Egyptians: A Picture Book. New York: Plantin Press, Fig. 26, B-D.

Hayes, William C. 1959. Scepter of Egypt II: A Background for the Study of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Hyksos Period and the New Kingdom (1675-1080 B.C.). Cambridge, Mass.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 21; p. 64, fig. 33.

2005. Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Arnold, Dorothea 2005. "Toilet Set." In Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh, edited by Catharine H. Roehrig. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 220-21, no. 145c.

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Tweezers | New Kingdom | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Carnarvon, 5th Earl of and Howard Carter 1912. Five Years' Explorations at Thebes: a record of work done 1907-1911. London: Oxford University Press, pp. 70, 72, pl. LXV. 1. Newberry, Percy E. and H. R. Hall 1922. Catalogue of an Exhibition of Ancient Egyptian Art. London: Burlington Fine Arts Club, p.

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5th–4th century BCE
Bronze
Rogers Fund, 1914
The MET museum

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/248881?ft=strigil&amp;offset=0&amp;rpp=40&amp;pos=2

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Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 857, p. 295, New York: Gilliss Press.

Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1992. Vol. 6: Kentauroi-Oiax. "Nereides," p. 813, no. 395, Zürich: Artemis Verlag.

van Alfen, Peter. 2004. A Simple Souvenir: Coins and Medals of the Olympic Games. no. 27, pp. 50-51, New York: American Numismatic Society.

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Bronze strigil (scraper) | Greek | Classical | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Richter, Gisela M. A. 1915. Greek, Etruscan and Roman Bronzes. no. 857, p. 295, New York: Gilliss Press. Lexicon Iconographicum Mythologiae Classicae (LIMC). 1992. Vol. 6: Kentauroi-Oiax. "Nereides," p. 813, no. 395, Zürich: Artemis Verlag. van Alfen, Peter. 2004. A Simple Souvenir: Coins and Medals of the Olympic Games. no.