Manual of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide to the Study of Antiquities in Egypt
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--Spoon. ] [Illustration: Fig. 253. --Spoon. ] Not to soil their fingers the Egyptians made use of spoons for essences, pomades, and the variously-coloured preparations with which both men andwomen stained their cheeks, lips, eyelids, nails, and palms. The designergenerally borrowed his subjects from the fauna or flora of the Nile valley. A little case at Gizeh is carved in the shape of a couchant calf, the bodybeing hollowed out, and the head and back forming a removable lid. A spoonin the sam...e collection represents a dog running away with an enormous fishin his mouth (fig. 246), the body of the fish forming the bowl of thespoon. Another shows a cartouche springing from a full-blown lotus;another, a lotus fruit laid upon a bouquet of flowers (fig. 247); and hereis a simple triangular bowl, the handle decorated with a stem and two buds(fig. 248). The most elaborate specimens combine these subjects with thehuman figure. A young girl, clad in a mere girdle, is represented in theact of swimming (fig.
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