Bronze combined hair curling tongs and depilatory

Made:: 1600-1300 BCE

Bronze combined hair curling tongs and depilatory, Egyptian

Bronze combined hair curling tongs and depilatory, Egyptian
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Bronze combined hair curling tongs and depilatory, Egyptian, 1600 BC to 1300 BC

Details

Category:: Classical & Medieval Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A60934

Materials:: bronze

Measurements:: length 118 mm
width 30 mm

type:: curling tong

credit:: Sotheby's

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