A guide to the exhibition illustrating Greek and Roman life (1920)
British Museum. Dept. of Greek and Roman Antiquities · London, British Museum · leaf 152
ious powders, and someblocks of paint are still preserved. For liquid ointments there arean alabaster box (No. 410) and three bottles of the same materialand remains of a leather bottle with its cork (No. 411). An Etruscanbronze cista, which stands on three human feet, contains a set ofmovable… … Fig. 165.—Toilet Box ofEulimine (No. 406). stands beside it. Besides cosmetics for the complexion, the toilet-boxes may have held tooth-powders, for which there are manyreceipts in the works of ancient writers on medicine. Mirrors.—For mirrors the ancients were at a disadvantage.The use of glass…
Civilization, Greek and Roman · Classical antiquities
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